THE World Health Organisation expressed today the worry to increase its incidence Covid around the world, although fewer and fewer people are doing detection tests coronavirus.
The head of the international organization Tentros, Antanom Grebregesos, stated today that global increase in cases may be the tip of the iceberg as some countries also report a drop in test rates.
“Over the past week, we have seen an 8% increase in the number of cases detected, with more than 11 million cases reported to the WHO despite a significant reduction in detection tests worldwide,” said WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkov. at a press conference.
Kerkov, who is in charge of fighting Covid-19 in the WHO after the outbreak of the disease in late 2019, believes that the re-increase in cases is the result of a “combination of factors”.
The wave of infections is greatly enhanced by Omicron’s BA.2 sub-variant, which already outperforms BA.1’s sister in some countries. Undoubtedly, BA.2 “is the most contagious variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus we have seen so far,” Kerkov insisted.
Added to this is the lifting of sanitary measures taken against Covid in many countries, which gives the virus “the opportunity to spread”, as well as an incomplete vaccination coverage in many parts of the world.
Finally, his special WHERE Deplores the misinformation about Covid-19 that is circulating at very high levels: some say that Omicron is benign and that it is the last variant the planet will face, others that the pandemic is over … “all this causes great confusion “, which benefits the virus.
“We are therefore seeing an increase in cases being detected worldwide for a number of reasons. “They are the same factors that have caused the transmission of this virus since the beginning of the pandemic.”
However, the good news, says Kerkov, is that people have the means to deal with it, before repeating it: mask, physical distance, vaccines, detection tests, treatments …
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