The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, pointed out that the increase in the number of hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 in the coming months “before the onset of a colder climate in the northern hemisphere”.
At a press conference this Wednesday from Geneva (Switzerland), the head of the International Health Organization United Nations however welcomed the evolution pandemicin which there is a “decrease in the number of reported deaths worldwide”.
Anyway, WHO recalled that the sub-options omicron “They are more contagious than their predecessors, and the risk of even more infectious and more dangerous variants remains.”
In addition, the official insisted that the lighting vaccination among those most at risk is “still too low, especially in low-income countries”.
“But even in high-income countries, 30 percent of health workers and 20 percent of older people remain unvaccinated. These vaccination gaps pose a danger to all of us. it is recommended to get it,” he warned.
For all these reasons, he asked the population of the world not to forget pandemic: “Living with COVID-19 does not mean pretending the pandemic is over. If you go out for a walk in the rain without an umbrella, then pretending that there is no rain will not do you any good. You will keep getting wet… Similarly, pretending that a deadly virus is not circulating is a big risk.”
Instead, he argued that life with COVID-19 “That means taking simple precautions to avoid becoming infected or, if you are infected, becoming seriously ill or dying.” “I call on all governments to update their policies to make the best use of the vital tools to govern COVID-19 responsible,” he said.
One million deaths worldwide since January
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of a million people worldwide since January 2022, the WHO itself pointed out last week, urging governments to speed up the vaccination of their populations.
“We have passed the tragic milestone of one million deaths from COVID-19 since the beginning of the year,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference.
According to the agency’s latest statistics, the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 It has been responsible for 6.45 million deaths worldwide since the first cases appeared at the end of 2019 in China.
(According to Europa Press and AFP)
Source: RPP
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