The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a strong warning about celebrating the holidays. Its director, Tedros Adhanom, has called for awareness and cancellation of social gatherings because it is better to “celebrate life tomorrow” than “celebrate today and mourn tomorrow.” “This is very serious and we are concerned (about omicron)”, has warned.
In this sense, the entity has confirmed that there are robust evidence that people who have been vaccinated against him COVID-19 or those who were infected in the past can contract the new variant, whose spread is accelerating day by day around the world. In an exclusive press conference for the international press in Geneva, the WHO Director-General pointed out that the information being analyzed about omicron indicates that this variant circulates faster than the previous ones and that “those vaccinated and those who have been cured are likely to become infected or reinfected.”
Faced with this situation, it has asked governments exercise extreme caution in the coming weeks and avoid crowded events and that they could become super-spreaders of the virus.
Precisely, on December 31, it will be two years since the WHO received the first notification about cases of pneumonia of an unknown type detected in China, which were caused by a new coronavirus that has caused 5.5 million deaths and 272 million cases around the world so far.
In terms of infections and deaths, the second year of the pandemic was worse than the first, since in the last twelve months deaths rose to 3.3 million, which exceeds the accumulated deaths from malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS at the national level. world.
Tedros has argued that if the world wants to end the acute phase of the pandemic in 2022 the problem of inequality must be solved among countries in terms of access to the tools that exist to curb COVID-19, including vaccines, diagnostic tests and treatments. In this sense, he has stated that the common goal should be for 70% of the population to be vaccinated by the middle of next year of each country (an objective that had been raised for this end of the year).
WHO experts have stated that they are not against booster doses against the coronavirus or deny the role they have, but they have recalled that the decision of rich countries to offer them its entire adult population plays against the risk groups in poor countries may have access to vaccines for a first or second dose.
80% of the patients hospitalized by COVID are people who have been vaccinated, according to the data collected by the organization in the international arena. How often will you have to receive a covid vaccine is one of the big questions at this stage of the pandemic, to which the WHO still cannot respond, although it has advanced that This will depend on a number of factors, such as the type of vaccine, since its effectiveness differs slightly from one product to another.
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