Covid-19 remains a threat as a new variant of the coronavirus causing the pandemic spreads steadily around the world, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
World Health Organization expert Maria Van Kerkhove said, “The SARS-CoV-2 virus is spreading in every country at the present time and still poses a threat.” She added during a discussion on the organization’s social media channels, “We must remain vigilant because the virus is spreading, evolving, and changing.”
Van Kerkhove was the WHO’s technical director for COVID-19 during the 2019 pandemic, and is now the UN agency’s acting director for epidemic preparedness and prevention.
Currently, there are three new variants of concern (XBB.1.5, XXB.1.16, and EG.5) and six variants under surveillance, without reaching the level of concern.
One of the six variants, BA.2.86, is being moved to the top level of variants of concern.
“We do not see a change in their risk” compared to other subvariants, but “we have seen a slow and steady increase in their detection around the world,” Van Kerkhove said.
The new classification is supposed to contribute to strengthening monitoring and research procedures.
The World Health Organization is also publishing a new assessment of the risks of the EG.5 mutant, which represents about half of the sequences shared globally, noting that the World Health Organization has also not observed a change in its risk.
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed millions of lives and wreaked economic and social devastation.
The World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern, its highest alert, on December 30, 2020, and then raised it on May 5 of this year.
Besides infection and acute illness, the WHO is also concerned about the long-term effects of the virus, known as long Covid or post-Covid cases.
“We have evidence that immunization with Covid-19 vaccines actually reduces the risk of post-Covid cases,” Van Kerkhove confirmed. She said that 13.5 billion vaccines against Covid-19 have been used globally.
Noting that people can be infected with influenza and SARS-CoV-2 at the same time, she urged people in the northern hemisphere to get vaccinated against both as winter approaches.
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2023-11-22 06:37:43
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