Even though the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the health emergency by the COVID-19 in May of this year, cases of this disease continue to increase.

The entity records that coronavirus infections worldwide increased by 80%only in the past month, but also mortality decreased by 57%.

Between July 10 and August 6, close by 1.5 million casesan 80% increase over the previous 28 days, the WHO weekly summary stated.

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The number of deaths fell by 57% and stood at 2,500.

The entity cautioned that these figures are not an exact representation of reality. Since the end of the emergency, there has been no follow-up with diagnostic tests in most of the world.

But the Director General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned on Wednesday that “the virus continues to circulate in all countries, continues to kill and continues to change”.

your version EC.5nicknamed there is by some scientists, is currently the most analyzed because could be responsible for the regrowth.

This variant has been identified in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom or France.

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“It has been identified in India, but also in other Asian countries, North America and Europe, where it is displacing previously dominant variants,” Antoine Flahault, director of the University of Geneva’s Institute for Global Health, told AFP.

“This variety does not appear to cause any specific symptoms or particular virulencewherever it has been detected,” he explained.

At present, the EG.5 variant does not pose a major threat to public health.