Geneva-. The European Center for Disease Control and Prevention urged compliance with the national anti-Covid-19 vaccination schedules given the increase in cases that this region is experiencing today.
“This step is essential to protect people with a high risk of suffering from the disease in a serious way and even dying,” underlines a statement from the health entity.
Countries must identify target groups and carry out immunization campaigns against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
This effort must be accompanied by a communication strategy aimed at the public and health professionals, to reach high-risk groups and inform them of the importance of being up-to-date in this regard.
To the extent possible, all SARS-CoV-2 positive samples should be sequenced and reported to facilitate assessment of circulating variants, the international body recommended.
Previously, the World Health Organization (WHO) instructed countries to continue reporting cases of Covid-19, as it is a threat to the international community.
Despite the end of the health emergency decreed by the decrease in infections caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it is necessary to continue reporting, stressed the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom.
There is no doubt that the risk of severe illness and death from Covid-19 is much lower, due to increased population immunity from vaccination, infection, or both, but the risk of such illness for the population continues to be assessed as high by WHO. global public health.
“The virus continues to circulate in all countries, it continues to kill and it continues to change,” Adhanom said.
Now the WHO tracks the different variants of the virus, including EG.5, and a more dangerous variant could emerge, which could cause a sudden increase in cases and deaths, the manager warned.
Countries must continue to work to ensure equitable access to safe, effective and quality vaccines, tests and treatments for Covid-19.
We recognize that many people and governments consider Covid-19 to be a thing of the past, but the WHO will not forget the coronavirus, and no one should, because we cannot predict the future, but we can prepare for it, Adhanom concluded.
2023-08-18 19:00:36
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