2023-08-10 13:35:47
Updated Thursday, August 10, 2023 – 13:35
According to the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “it does not mean that the rest of the countries have stopped having deaths”
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In the past month, only 25% of the countries in the world reported deaths from Covid-19and an even smaller percentage, a 11 %inform hospitalizations and ICU admissions by the disease, warned this Wednesday the World Health Organization (WHO), which asked governments to do not lower the alert.
“It does not mean that the rest of the countries have stopped having deaths and hospitalizations, but that they do not report them“, warned at a press conference the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“There is no doubt that the Death risk or serious cases is now much less than a year ago, due to the growing immunization of the population thanks to vaccines and infections, but despite the improvement, the WHO continues to consider the Covid risk as high in public health,” he added.
Although Tedros himself declared the end of the international emergency due to Covid-19 on May 5, today he stressed that “the virus continues to circulate in all countries, it continues to kill and mutate“.
“The danger of a dangerous variant emerging that could cause a sudden increase in infections and fatal cases persists,” said Tedros, who recalled that despite the end of the international emergency, a WHO expert committee continues to meet periodically to analyze the response to the virus.
Following the recommendations of this committee, Tedros today launched an appeal to the member countries of the WHO to Maintain certain preventive measures against the coronaviruswhich include “continuing to offer vaccines to risk groups” and informing the WHO of deaths and hospitalizations from the disease.
“At the WHO we do not forget about the disease, and neither should governments,” concluded the head of the UN health agency.
Since the start of the pandemic at the end of 2019, the WHO has counted more than 768 million cases of the disease all over the planet, 6.9 million of them fatalwhich makes the health crisis one of the most serious since that caused by the flu in 1918.
Compared to the worst moments of the pandemicin which more than 20 million weekly cases globally (at the beginning of 2022 with the micron variant), only about 10,000 infections were reported in Europe and 20,000 in America during the last week of July, although the numbers were still relatively high in Asia-Pacific (288,000 positives).
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