on the next Covid variant, an official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that ‘variants are wild cards’ but the next will take time to get there. Once again there was alarm about Omicron, Yang Maria Van Kerkhove insisted that it was not the last variant of concern and today, the UN health agency traces four different versions.
The next Covid varian “We know a lot about this virus, but we don’t know everything. And frankly, the variant is a wild card. So we track this virus in real time when mutated when changing … But this virus has many things. Room to move,” he said.
“Omicron is the latest variant of concern. It won’t be the last variant of concern that who will talk about. The next one, you know, it will come, it will take time to get there. But with the level of deployment intensity, the possibility that we will Having another variant is very high, “he said. So we need to make sure we are again, not only increasing vaccination coverage, but we also take steps to reduce the spread, “he added.
In a similar session last month, Van Kerkhove has explained that the next Covid variant will definitely be more contagious than Omicron, but the real question is whether it will be more deadly or not Omicron and the subvariants At present, under the umbrella ‘Omicron’, which monitors as many as four subvarians – BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2 and BA.3 Similar stories BA.2 is more contagious than BA.1 so we hope to see BA.2 increases detection throughout the world, “Van Kerkhove said.
According to the Weekly Epidemiology Report the UN Health Agency, which was released on Tuesday, the omicron variant was increasingly dominant – making almost 97 percent of all cases The prevalence of the Omicron variant has increased globally and is now detected in almost all countries. However, many countries report early gains in the number of cases because the Omicron variant has now reported a decline in the total new cases since the beginning of January 2022,” he said.
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