TRIBUN-VIDEO.COM, SWISS – The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that a spike in cases Covid-19 what is happening in several countries at this time has the potential to give rise to a new corona variant.
“The pandemic is not over yet,” said Professor Didier Houssin, chair of the COVID-19 Emergency Committee WHO on Thursday (15/7/2021), quoted from ABC News.
Spike in infections and deaths Covid-19 globally highlighting the further challenges of the pandemic.
In Africa, new cases surpassed the peak of the second seven-day wave ending on July 4 and the death toll this week was up 40%, according to the WHO.
At the beginning of the pandemic, there was only one variant of the corona virus, namely SARS-CoV-2.
But after this virus spread throughout the world, new mutations emerged.
In fact, some mutations are more contagious than the original virus.
Currently there are four variants Covid-19 which is of concern WHO namely Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
The Delta variant, which was first identified in India, has accounted for nearly 60% of all cases of infection Covid-19 in the US.
Even this variant has spread in more than 100 countries in the world, including Indonesia.
“We expect it to be the dominant strain circulating worldwide, if not already,” said the Director General WHO Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Furthermore WHO warned that new virus variants that are more difficult to control may emerge in line with the current pandemic situation.
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Still citing ABC News, the vaccine is one of the world’s efforts to tackle the current spread of the SARS-CoV-2 variant.
Vaccines are also considered a tool so that viruses have less chance to evolve into new variants.
Unfortunately, there are still many countries in the world that do not get a supply of vaccines Covid-19 which is enough.
Globally, only 25.8% of the world’s population has received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the University of Oxford’s Global Change Data Lab.
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