Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, warned:WHO“, from the next alternative to the Corona virus, noting that the unfair access to vaccines and diagnostics in many countries, along with the high rate of transmission of infection, creates an environment conducive to the development of new variables, explaining that the longer this continues, it may lead to the continuation of the epidemic..
He said that the belief that the epidemic was over due to the high coverage of vaccines might be “dangerous”, and also refuted claims that the Omicron variant Omicron It was less.
Tedros noted that 70,000 people die every week from a preventable and treatable disease, 83% of the African population has not yet received a single dose of the vaccine. CoronaHe added that health care institutions around the world were straining and stumbling under the burden of cases, continuing: “In fact, the conditions are ideal for the emergence of more transmissible and more dangerous variants.“.
Ending the epidemic is our choice now
Tedros explained that significant resources were needed at the national and global levels to ensure global health security, and stressed that any effort to strengthen the global health security architecture can only succeed if the role of the World Health Organization is prioritized over establishing new mechanisms.
“We need cooperation in the face of common threats,” he said. We need stronger systems and tools to prevent, detect and respond to future pandemics faster, and in response to a question regarding when the epidemic will end, he said: “It will end when we choose to end it, because, in the end, it is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.“.
Why is it so hard to detect new variants early?
According to the site TheHealthSiteIt comes to the fact that many countries are avoiding genome sequencing, according to Dr Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the World Health Organization, explaining that the high costs of genetic sequencing prevent regarding a third of the world’s countries from sequencing Corona, this method helps in detecting new strains of The disease, explaining that the equipment is expensive because it requires expensive reagents, which are frequently imported, despite the fact that the rate of genetic sequencing has increased significantly since the outbreak began, the current levels are insufficient..
