Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – United States President Joe Biden yesterday, Friday (11/26/2021), asked a meeting of countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO) next week to agree to ignore intellectual property protections for the Covid-19 vaccine, especially after the discovery of Omicron, a variant of the corona virus. new in South Africa.
“News of this new variant should make it clearer than ever why this pandemic will not end until we have global vaccinations,” Biden said in a statement.
“Today’s news reaffirms the importance of moving this (ignoring intellectual property protection) quickly,” he stressed.
As is known, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday (11/26/2021) just held an impromptu meeting regarding the virus B.1.1.529, a new variant of Covid-19 from South Africa that is growing fast.
The meeting decided that the variant B.1.1.529 detected in South Africa was a “worrying variant” (variant of concern/VOC) and said that it is likely to spread faster than other variants before.
Preliminary evidence suggests there is an increased risk of reinfection and an “adverse change in the epidemiology of Covid-19,” the WHO said in a statement after a closed-door meeting of independent experts who reviewed the data.
Infections in South Africa have risen sharply in recent weeks, coinciding with the detection of the variant now designated as Omicron, the WHO said.
“This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are worrying. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, compared to others (variants of concern/ VOCs),” the WHO said in the statement.
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