The WHO chief warned that continues to be concerned about rising deaths by the disease and the situation in many countries, regardless of the decision that is made.
alerted that “In total, more than 170,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the last eight weeks”but specified that “these represent only the reported deaths, since the real number is much higher.”
He clarified that since the beginning of last December the number of weekly deaths was growing.
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Covid-19 pandemic
As of March 11, 2020, the WHO classifies the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus detected in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019, as a pandemic.
On September 22, Tedros warned that the world was still “in the tunnel” of the pandemic and a month later he reported that the disease persisted as international public health emergency.
Since the start of the scourge, 6.74 million people have died worldwide and infections have risen to more than 669.17 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University of the United States, which specializes in infectious diseases, quoted the Sputnik news agency.
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cases. The number of weekly deaths from covid-19 is a fifth of that of a year earlier.
Vaccines
The bivalent vaccines from Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE and Moderna helped prevent the symptomatic infections by Omicron XBB sub-variantsaccording to an analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States published on Wednesday.
The analysis revealed that this, which is aimed at Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants and the parent strain of the virus, helped prevent illness in people who had previously received between two and four doses of the parent, the CDC said.
The analysis took into account the cases registered between December 1 and January 13, a period of time in which the circulation in the United States of XBB and XBB.1.5 increased. The subvariants are descendants of omicron, the most contagious variant of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Source: Ambito
