Several countries are taking precautions to avoid the appearance or proliferation of a new wave of COVID-19.
The World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that at the moment there is no data that shows that current vaccines against the coronavirus have deficiencies against the omicron variant.
The Organization has pointed out these days that it will take between one and three more weeks to interpret and draw conclusions from the scientific data that is being collected on the omicron variant and to determine with greater clarity its ability to be transmitted, the degree of disease that it can cause and , above all, what impact it can have on the efficacy of vaccines.
However, it is inevitable that this new variant will spread as it did with the delta.
So far no direct deaths have been reported by omicron, only that it could be more contagious, although the symptoms of most who have had it are mild.
One of the countries with the most cases of the variant is Denmark, which on Saturday reported 183, although it is worth remembering that the Nordic country is one of the most cutting-edge in terms of virus sequencing in Europe, so it can detect more cases more quickly . That doesn’t mean that the transmissibility of the new variant is stronger there than elsewhere.
Until more information is available, the recommendation is to continue advancing with vaccination and even with the booster dose in the population.
Meanwhile, the pandemic has already caused at least 5’249,851 deaths in the world since the WHO office in China reported the appearance of the disease in December 2019, according to a balance established by AFP this Sunday, from official sources.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 264’784,370 people have contracted the disease. The vast majority of patients recover, but a still poorly evaluated part maintains symptoms for weeks or even months.
The figures are based on the reports communicated daily by the health authorities of each country and exclude the corrections made. in the aftermath by the different statistical organisms that conclude that the number of deaths is much more important.
The WHO even estimates that if the overmortality linked to COVID-19 is taken into account, directly and indirectly, the balance of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially registered.
A significant part of less severe or asymptomatic cases remains undetected despite the intensification of testing in many countries.
On Saturday, 6,343 new deaths and 520,383 infections were registered in the world. The countries that registered the most deaths according to the latest official balances are India, with 2,796; Russia (1,206) and the United States (500).
The number of deaths in the United States amounts to 788,204 with 49’051,150 infections.
After the United States, the countries with the most fatalities are Brazil, with 615,570 deaths and 22’138,247 cases; India, with 473,326 deaths (34’633,255 cases); Mexico, with 295,155 deaths (3’900,293 cases) and Russia, with 281,278 deaths (9’801,613 cases).
Among the hardest hit countries, Peru has the highest mortality rate, with 611 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Bulgaria (414), Bosnia (387), Montenegro (370), North Macedonia (366), Hungary (364) and Czech Republic (314). (I)
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