The World Health Organization announced Wednesday evening to maintain the maximum alert level in the face of the Covid-19 crisis, warning of a pandemic that “has surprised us and could give the ball back”.
The World Health Organization Emergency Committee met last week To discuss the possibility of ending the state of alertHowever, he retracted and concluded, according to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to reporters at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, that “Covid-19 continues to represent a public health emergency of international concern.”
On January 30, 2020, members of the World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee decided to classify the COVID outbreak as an “international public health emergency” and the alert level has not been lowered since then.
Tedros warned himThe virus continues to evolve and there are still many risks and uncertainties“, warning that” the pandemic has surprised us before and can bring the ball back “.
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The committee stressed the need to “extend access to tests, treatments and vaccines” and recommended that “all countries update their national plans” to address the crisis.
Since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization has reported over 622 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 6.5 million deaths. These numbers are an underestimate.
The organization reported around 263,000 new infections in the past 24 hours. In the past week alone, 856 new deaths from Covid have been reported worldwide.
In the past two weeks, A new variant of the Corona virus, known as “XBB”, has been detected in several countriessuch as Singapore and Hong Kong, which have caused an increase in Corona injuries in both countries, while experts have suggested discovering the variable, for the first time, last August.
Cases of the new Corona virus are estimated to have more than doubled in one day in Singapore as the number jumped from 4,700 to 11,700 cases, according to the Daily Beast website.
The new variant is the worst genetic version of the virus, as it avoids the antibodies of monoclonal treatments, which makes the drugs ineffective in slowing their growth within the body’s cells, as is the case with other versions.
And the director of the American National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, had once again warned of the emergence of a new mutate from the Corona virus during the coming winter. And he added, during his speech at the USC Annenberg Center for the Press, that we shouldn’t be surprised by the emergence of a new mutation that is more dangerous than its predecessors, which may be able to bypass the immune response we have achieved, either. it is from infection or vaccines, according to a report published by the “CNB” C. CNBC network.
