Soothing other alarms about the next Covid variant, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that unfair access to vaccines and tests in many countries combined with high transmissions create ideal conditions to appear. “The longer this injustice continues, the longer the pandemic obstacles,” he also warned.
Paying for how the pandemic hinders important economic goals, which Director General of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreesus said, “With a prolocated economic uncertainty and an increase in the risk of long-term scarring, the pandemic has seriously made us return to very important developments for the construction of economic stability. “
“And therefore collaboration that is closer between the health and financial sectors is very important,” said the head added.
Most countries don’t do genome sequencing
Explain why it is difficult to identify a new variant earlier, who heads scientist Soumya Swaminathan shows that the cost of high genome sequencing holds around a third of the country in the world of sequencing-19. This method helps identify new variants of viruses.
The equipment is high because they need expensive reagents, which often have to be imported. This fact itself has prevented countries from developing this skill, he said during a Devex recipe for progress on Tuesday.
Although the sequencing level of the genome has increased significantly since the start of the Pandemic, even the current level is not good enough
Olympics for Coronavirus.
Earlier this week, talking about the topic related to Omicron and the emergence of a new Covid variant, which was explained by Mike Ryan officials, it was an Olympics for the current virus in terms of each sub-lineage, each variant tried to beat the next and The process will continue, and during the continuing transmission that selective pressure will be on the virus.
Adding his view, who Maria van Kerkhove added, that increased transmission relating to mutations and other things that are now visible (Omicron) are the nature of the escape of immune.
“So, this is something we look for in the future variant and what might happen, if we will have a more transmitting variant, which is likely, but we are also worried about the potential variant that will escape further immune.”
If that’s the problem, the risk of reinfection or the risk of breakthrough infection can be higher into the future.
75,000 Covid deaths reported last week
“In many countries, the severity of the bottom omikron pushes a false narrative that the pandemic ends,” Tedros said during a address. This happened at the time of death related Covid continued to make our scars.
Last week, the death of 75,000 Covid was reported, although the number of cases recorded in the same time was significantly low compared to the previous weeks. However, WHO officials warned that the number of infections was low because the test rate had fallen.
Last week, only 16 million new Covid cases were reported.