WHO Warns of Winter Spike in COVID-19 Cases

There was a spike in cases COVID-19 called the World Health Organization (WHO) need to watch out in winter. The reason is, in the past week WHO said COVID-19 had killed at least 50,000 people.

“This is not the situation we want,” said WHO Health Emergencies Program Executive Director Mike Ryan during a press conference at headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. CNBC International.

A number of WHO officials see the increasing trend of COVID-19 cases. Considered worrying because several countries are struggling with the availability of ICU and hospitalization.

“This is not a situation where the northern hemisphere wants to enter winter. This is not the place that developing countries with stressful health care conditions for nine months,” said Ryan.

Mike said there needed to be vigilance for several countries that were entering the winter. This is because more people tend to gather in one room and increase the risk of Corona transmission. According to him, many activities need to be done, such as protecting the opening of schools, and protecting the most vulnerable people from severe illness and the risk of death.

Meanwhile, WHO European Regional Director Hans Kluge also gave a warning regarding the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases which have been surging again for weeks. Most of the European countries have seen an increase of 10 percent or more in the last two weeks.

US health officials also fear the COVID-19 outbreak could get worse as the country enters autumn and winter. Health officials have repeatedly warned that they are preparing to fight two nasty viruses circulating later this year as the COVID-19 outbreak enters flu season. Earlier this month, Infectious Diseases Expert Anthony Fauci said approaching this fall, new cases every day were very high in the US.

“Once (the number of cases) is high, it will be difficult to reduce it,” he said.

Fauci also said that the figure for the US would be “hundreds of cases, thousands, but not 20, 30, 40 thousand cases a day.”

Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO Technical Head for pandemic COVID-19, noting that global health officials have hundreds of seroepidemiological studies examining rates of coronavirus infection in different populations. The study shows that “the majority of the world’s population is susceptible to infection with this virus,” he said.

“That means the virus still has a long way to go,” he continued.

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