Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
WHO disclose corona virus the delta variant is a warning to the world to suppress the rate of viral infection quickly before it mutates into a more virulent and bad variant.
This was revealed by WHO in its press conference, Friday (30/7). The highly contagious variant, first detected in India, has now appeared in 132 countries and territories.
“Delta is a warning, it’s a warning that the virus is evolving but it’s also a call to action that we need to move now before more dangerous variants emerge,” WHO Emergencies Director Michael said.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that so far there are four worrying variants that have emerged, and there will be more as long as the virus continues to spread.
Tedros said that on average, infections increased by 80 percent over the past four weeks in five of the WHO’s six regions.
Even though Delta has shaken up much of the country, Ryan said proven measures to control transmission are still working – especially physical distancing, wearing masks, hand hygiene and avoiding long periods of time indoors in poorly ventilated and crowded places.
“It stops the Delta variant, especially when you add vaccinations,” he said.
“The virus is getting fitter, the virus is getting faster. The plan still works, but we need to implement and execute the game plan much more efficiently and more effectively than it has ever been done before.”
There is no magic solution
WHO wants every country to have vaccinated at least 10 percent of its population by the end of September; at least 40 percent by the end of this year, and 70 percent by mid-2022.
“We are still far from achieving that target,” he said.
He said that more than half of the WHO’s 194 member countries had fully vaccinated 10 percent of their population; less than a quarter have been vaccinated 40 percent; and only three countries have vaccinated 70 percent.
Meanwhile the WHO said Burundi, Eritrea and North Korea were the only remaining member states that had not started a Covid-19 vaccination campaign. Tedros.
“There’s no magic solution,” Ryan said.
“The only miracle we have is vaccination. The problem is that we don’t give it evenly around the world and we are working against ourselves.”
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