The World Health Organization’s chief scientist, Somya Swaminathan, said today, Friday, that the world has not yet witnessed the end of the Corona pandemic, as more mutated strains of the virus are expected to appear.
“We’ve seen the virus evolve and mutate,” Swaminathan told reporters in South Africa. “So we realize there will be more mutated strains, The mutated strains are interesting, so we are not at the end of the pandemic.”
A WHO delegation visits a vaccine manufacturing center in South Africa
Swaminathan was visiting vaccine manufacturing facilities in South Africa with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
And Machidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, said yesterday, Thursday, that the organization’s estimates reveal that the number of Covid-19 infections on the continent may be seven times higher than what official data indicate, while deaths may be two or three times higher than Advertiser.
“We are well aware of the problems with the surveillance systems we have on the continent, where the problem of obtaining testing supplies, for example, has led to fewer actual cases being counted,” Moeti said in a regular online press briefing.
Corona tests in Cameroon
This comes while the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that The PA2 strain of the mutant Omicron It is now widespread in South Africa and has been spotted in a number of other African countries.
“We have data from South Africa that B.B. Verse. 2 “It has now become the most common strain in South Africa.”
He added that the strain was monitored in Mozambique, Senegal, Botswana, Mauritius, Kenya and Malawi, noting that it is likely to be found in other places, but it has not been monitored so far. due to poor monitoring systems.
