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The WHO wants to act as quickly as possible against the omicron
The World Health Organization (WHO) has shown its concern with the new variant of Covid-19, which has once again placed the whole world at risk, so it is necessary to take action soon before it is too late.
Therefore, the WHO has begun to urge the different countries of the world to act quickly, since the next days and weeks will be key for the development of the omicron variant.
The general director of the organization, Tedros Adhanom, did not wait to send a statement to all the authorities of the world: "If countries are going to wait for their hospitals to start filling up, then it will be too late, we will go back to the beginning. ".
Concern after the new variant of Covid-19
The concern right now belongs to everyone, this is how Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, who is an epidemiologist at the WHO, has also supported this message from Tedros Adhanom and has stressed that you cannot react to this variant in January or February when it is late.
"The use of the proven public health tool to reduce the transmission of the virus. The situation right now continues to be very diverse around the world and the delta variant continues to be dominant worldwide," the doctor stressed.
Omicron presence
For now, the director general of the WHO has notified that the presence of the new variant of omicron coronavirus is already in 57 countries and has warned that this number is going to grow because its spread is global and the large number of mutations that has.
This is how they indicate that this could have a great impact on the course of the pandemic, although its scope is still unknown. In addition, the Director-General of WHO has indicated the following:
"We ask all countries to please increase their surveillance, testing and sequencing. The existing diagnostic tests work, whether they are doing rapid antigen-based tests or PCR."
"Based on the most recent data from South Africa, they suggest an increased risk of reinfection with omicron, but much more data is needed to be able to draw our own conclusions and make it much stronger"; he claimed.
On the other hand, Dr. Michael Ryan, who is responsible for the emergency response of the Organization, has included himself in the issue of the transmissibility of this virus, this is how he has indicated that his condition of transmissible would not be making it something much more lethal or virulent.
"If we begin to allow viruses to be transmitted without any type of control, then many more will be generated. We could already see this with the delta and with other variants of Covid-19. Therefore, if it is allowed to spread without No controls, even if they are not individually more virulent or lethal. More cases will just show up. "
"Hence the great importance of being able to exert greater pressure on the health system of the countries and prevent many more people from dying. These are things that we can avoid if we all take the necessary measures in time." This is what Dr. Michael Ryan has advised.
