BEIJING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) — According to statistics released by the World Health Organization, the threat posed by COVID-19 virus mutations to human beings is weakening, a Chinese health expert said Thursday. health.
Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told a press conference that the proportion of deaths among infected cases linked to the virus dropped by 2.33 percent in 2020, to 0.28% in 2022.
The percentage even fell to 0.08% in December 2022, he continued.
Overall, the virus’s infectivity and immune escape have increased as it continues to mutate, but its pathogenicity has weakened, according to the expert.
The likelihood of a more infectious variant emerging in the future is low, and there is only a tiny chance that the virus will revert to the more pathogenic original strain, or its Delta variant, he said. he adds. END
