The World Health Organization announced, on Wednesday evening, to maintain the maximum alert level in the face of the Covid-19 crisis, warning of a pandemic that “surprised us and could return the ball.”
The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee met last week to discuss the possibility of ending the state of alert, but retracted it and concluded, according to what WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, “that Covid-19 remains a public health emergency of international concern. “.
On January 30, 2020, members of the World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee agreed to classify the COVID outbreak as an “international public health emergency”, and since then the alert level has not been lowered.
“The virus continues to evolve and there are still many risks and uncertainties,” Tedros warned, warning that “the pandemic has surprised us before and can bring the ball back.”
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The committee stressed the need to “expand access to tests, treatments and vaccines” and recommended that “all countries update their national plans” to tackle the crisis.
Since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization has reported more than 622 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 6.5 million deaths. These numbers are an underestimate.
The organization has reported about 263,000 new infections during the past 24 hours. In the past week alone, 856 new COVID-19 deaths were reported worldwide.
Over the past two weeks, a new variant of the Corona virus, known as “XBB”, was detected in a number of countries, such as Singapore and Hong Kong, which caused an increase in Corona injuries in both countries, while experts suggested discovering the variant, for the first time, in last August.
It is estimated that cases of the new Corona virus more than doubled in one day, in Singapore, as the numbers rose from 4,700 to 11,700 cases, according to the Daily Beast website.
The new variant is the worst genetic version of the virus, as it avoids antibodies from monoclonal treatments, which makes the drugs ineffective at slowing its growth inside the body’s cells, as is the case with other versions.
And the director of the American National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Doctor Anthony Fauci, had warned again of the emergence of a new mutated from the Corona virus during the coming winter. And he added, during his speech at the “USC Annenberg” Center for the Press, that we should not be surprised by the emergence of a new mutation more dangerous than its predecessors, which may be able to bypass the immune response we obtained, whether it is from infection or vaccines, according to a report published by “CNN” C. CNBC.