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The WHO, “very concerned”, confirms that vaccinated and cured of covid can be infected by omicron

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed today that there is robust evidence that people who have been vaccinated against covid-19 or those who were infected in the past can contract the omicron variant, whose spread is accelerating day by day around of the world.

In an exclusive press conference for the international press in Geneva, the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the information that is being analyzed about omicron indicates that this variant circulates more quickly than the previous ones and that “it is those vaccinated and those who have been cured of covid are likely to be infected or reinfected. “

The person in charge called everyone to become aware of this situation a few days before the end of the year festivities, pointing out that it is better to cancel the celebrations now “and celebrate life tomorrow”, than to “celebrate today and mourn tomorrow. “.

“This is very serious and we are very concerned (about omicron),” stressed Tedros, adding that reports that would indicate that this variant causes more moderate disease than delta (the predominant variant worldwide) may not be representative.

For this reason, he asked the governments to exercise maximum caution in the coming weeks and avoid events with the presence of many people and that could become super-spreaders of the virus.

On December 31, it will be two years since the WHO received the first notification of cases of pneumonia of an unknown type detected in China, which turned out to be caused by a new coronavirus that has so far caused 5.5 million deaths and 272 millions of cases around the world.

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