Health: According to WHO, 90% of people worldwide are immune to COVID-19
90% of the global population, according to the World Health Organization, is now at least somewhat resistant to COVID-19, but the organization also issued a warning that a worrying new version could still appear.
According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, gaps in surveillance were creating an opportunity for a new virus variety to emerge and replace the currently prevalent Omicron virus.
In reference to the virus that causes Covid-19 disease, Tedros remarked, “WHO estimates that at least 90% of the world’s population now has some level of protection to SARS-CoV-2, due to prior infection or immunization.”
He told reporters, “We are not there yet, but we are considerably closer to being able to state that the emergency phase of the epidemic is finished.”
“Gaps in surveillance, testing, sequencing, and immunization continue to provide the ideal environment for an emerging variation of concern that may result in considerable mortality.”
According to Tedros, last weekend marked the one-year anniversary of the organization’s announcement that Omicron was a brand-new COVID-19 variant to be concerned about.
Since then, it has spread throughout the world and proven to be much more contagious than its predecessor, Delta.
Tedros claimed that there were currently more than 500 highly transmissible Omicron sub-lineages in circulation, all of which could bypass preexisting immunity more readily, despite the fact that they tended to be milder than earlier versions.
From approximately 640 million documented cases, countries have reported 6.6 million deaths to the WHO. However, the UN health agency claims that this is a vast undercount and does not accurately represent the total death toll.
“It is not acceptable three years into the pandemic when we have so many tools to prevent infections and save lives,” Tedros said of the more than 8,500 people who were reported to have died from Covid last week.
AFP
