The World Health Organization (WHO) has assured this Monday that easing the restrictions is, today, “playing a deadly lottery.” This was stated at a press conference by the epidemiologist and head of the Anti-Covid Technical Unit Maria Van Kerkhove, who has appeared with Mike Ryan, responsible for Health Emergencies Program of the organization.
Van Kerkhove has added that while most of the population is not immunized (something that, for now, seems still a long way off) “the virus will continue to circulate and mutate”. For this reason, he added, it is essential that vaccines reach the largest number of countries, “not only the advanced ones, not only the West.”
As long as the situation is this, “vaccination will not mean the end of the pandemic because those vaccinated can become infected and transmit the virus” to those who have not yet received the dose against Covid-19. That is why easing the constraints implies “play a deadly lottery”. “The majority of people currently admitted for coronavirus have not received the vaccine and most of the world is unvaccinated. “
More worrisome strains to come
Ryan, for his part, has said that the WHO “is very concerned” about the progress of the Delta variant, what “It is not more deadly than other strains, but it is more contagious”, added Van Kerkhove, who has ensured that the Delta “It will not be the last worrying strain, more will come.”
Van Kerkhove added that global cases of Covid-19 have increased by 11.5% over the last week, with double-digit increases in almost all regions of the world, while deaths have increased by 1%. “After 18 months, it is a very worrying situation,” he concluded.
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