Omicron flurry at WHO: 'Ringing alarm bells'

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that at the press conference he held with global health experts at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, 15 million new cases were reported to WHO last week, and this is the highest weekly global He said that there are the number of cases of Covid-19.

Ghebreyesus said, “ Increasing infections are caused by Omicron, which has replaced the Delta variant in almost every country” .

Emphasizing that Omicron still poses a danger even though it causes less severe diseases compared to Delta, Ghebreyesus said, “ The number of deaths per week is almost 50 thousand and this is too much. Learning to live with the virus should not mean that we will accept these death figures” he said.

Stating that 40 percent of the population in 90 countries still cannot be vaccinated against Covid-19, Ghebreyesus said that the gaps in vaccinations are not available. He underlined that it is not possible to effectively combat the epidemic without being closed.

PRIORITY FIRST DOSAGE

Ghebreyesus, Stating that WHO is closely monitoring the effect of current Covid-19 vaccines against the Omicron variant, he said, “The Technical Advisory Group for Covid-19 Vaccines yesterday emphasized that more vaccines are needed to provide wider access to vaccines and to prevent infection of the epidemic. made“.

Advice Group’s, “ Reminding the recommendation that the priority is the first dose of vaccinations rather than the booster dose “, Ghebreyesus stated that the majority of those hospitalized were unvaccinated. WE CAN DROP WITH VACCINES”

AA reporter’s warning by WHO Regional Director for Europe Kluge “ More than half of the European population will be infected with the Omicron variant in 6-8 weeks Maria Van Kerkhove, the leader of the WHO’s fight team against Covid-19, and Bruce Aylward, WHO’s Chief Advisor, answered the question of whether it is valid for the whole world.

Kerkhove, “Omicron v We see that ariant has spread very effectively among people. We will see higher case numbers in the coming weeks if we allow this variant to spread in its current form. Currently, we are not in a position to prevent all transmissions, but we can limit the spread of the virus. We can also reduce the high number of cases that are currently emerging. We can reduce the severity of Covid-19 with vaccines” he said.

Kerkhove stated that the epidemic continues to spread and evolve, “Omicron is a variant of Delta variant. Although it is less severe, it still hospitalizes and kills people

Chief Advisor Aylward emphasized that WHO Europe Director “ sounded the alarm bells ” due to the rapid increase in the number of Omicron cases.

Aylward, 30 Stating that he has been working in the field of infectious diseases for years, he said that they had not witnessed such an epidemic and “ epidemic curve” before. Emphasizing that “ throwing the towel in the name of mass immunity” would be a great wrong choice, Bruce emphasized that such a choice would cost the lives of many people, especially healthcare workers and elderly people.

Omicron’s latest v We have to remember that there will be no ariant ” said Bruce, emphasizing that they have not yet predicted in which direction the epidemic will progress and with which variants they will meet. He invited me to have a mask done and to wear a mask.

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