On January 11, the European Medicines Agency declared that humanity was going to be able to live with the virus thanks to the Omicron variant. On January 23, WHO Europe made a similar statement.
“It is plausible that the region is approaching an end to the pandemic”
The director of WHO Europe Hans Kluge estimated this Sunday that Omicron could bring the Covid-19 pandemic on the old continent into a phase of denouement. ” It is plausible that the region is approaching an end to the pandemic “, he told AFP.
And to add: Once the Omicron wave subsides, there will be overall immunity for a few weeks and months, either because of the vaccine or because people will be immune due to infection and also a drop due to seasonality. »
However, the organization urges caution due to ” the versatility of the virus “. We are not in an endemic era “, recalled the UN official. ” Endemic means (…) that we can predict what will happen, this virus has surprised more than once. So we have to be very careful “said Hans Kluge.
In the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA), this variant, which could contaminate 60% of Europeans by March, is now dominant according to the European health agency.
An inconsistency with the introduction of the vaccination pass pointed out on the networks
On Twitter, Internet users quickly relayed this information and exposed the inconsistency between the implementation of a vaccination pass and this WHO statement. Also, the president of the Patriotes Florian Philippot commented that this was further proof that this case is ” exclusively political and financial ».
To create a #PassVaccinal right when the WHO considers plausible an end to the pandemic in Europe due to the specificities of Omicron!
And then we are told that this case is sanitary… It is exclusively political and financial! https://t.co/bE4H5TzvfM— Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) January 23, 2022
Following the declaration of the health agency, the economist Philippe Murer, for his part, described the vaccination policy desired by Emmanuel Macron as ” infamous ».
The WHO considers “plausible” an end to the pandemic in Europe with Omicron.
Macron chooses vaccination every 4 months continuously under pain of social death.
Infamous political strategy https://t.co/1I6GVmqSxo– Philippe Murer (@PhilippeMurer) January 23, 2022
Earlier, on January 20, the WHO asked the lifting of travel bans and the vaccination pass to enter countries, judging that the implementation of general travel bans, like the obligation to vaccinate at borders, ” is not effective in suppressing international spread » du variant Omicron.