The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus He warned that the danger of the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) continues.
At the press conference held at the organization’s Geneva headquarters, Ghebreyesus noted that the world is in a better situation due to the emergence of clinical care managementvaccines and treatments compared to 2019, when the epidemic started.
Ghebreyesus recalled that the cases of COVID-19 decreased for most of last year, adding that despite some problemsvaccination has increased Around the world.
This was underlined by the director general of the World Health Organization, Ghebreyesus the danger of Covid-19 continues despite open progress done and added:
“There are still large inequalities in access to treatment, testing and vaccines. For this reason, Covid-19 continues to be a dangerous virus for our health, economies and societies in general. From what we know, nearly 10,000 people die from Covid-19 every week. The real toll is probably higher.”
Ghebreyesus also noted that in recent weeks there has been an increase in reports of hospitalizations and Health systems under pressure, especially in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, where respiratory diseases are commonincluding the flu.
The director general of the World Health Organization, Ghebreyesus, reiterated the importance of vaccines and booster doses to prevent hospitalization, serious illness and death.
The general manager said so cases are high due to high circulation in China and who have not received complete data:
“This data is very valuable to WHO and the world. We urge all countries to share this data. The data remains essential to WHO carries out regular, rapid and robust assessments of the current situation”.
Ghebreyesus noted that the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant (a combination of two variants of the BA.2 subvariant), first noticed outside of China in November 2022, increases in the US and Europe and is now detected in at least 25 countries.
