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Last month only 25% of the world’s countries have reported deaths from Covid-19, and an even smaller percentage, 11%, reported hospitalizations and admissions to the ICU due to
Last month only 25% of the world’s countries have reported deaths from Covid-19, and an even smaller percentage, 11%, reported hospitalizations and admissions to the ICU due to illness, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned this Wednesday, which asked governments not to lower their alarm levels.
“This does not mean that the rest of the countries have stopped deaths and hospitalizations, but they are not reporting them,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned at a press conference.
“There is no doubt that the risk of death or serious cases is now much lower than a year ago due to increased immunization of the population thanks to vaccines and infections, but despite the improvement, WHO continues to consider the risk of contracting Covid as high in public health,” added an expert from Ethiopia.
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Although Tedros himself announced the end of the international emergency due to Covid-19 on May 5, he stressed today that “the virus continues to circulate in all countries, it continues to kill and mutate.”
“The risk remains that a dangerous variant could emerge that could cause a sudden rise in infections and deaths.”Tedros assured, recalling that despite the end of the international emergency, a committee of WHO experts continues to meet periodically to analyze the response to the virus.
Following the recommendations of this committee, Tedros launched today call on WHO Member States to maintain certain preventive measures against the coronavirus, which include “continuing to offer vaccines to at-risk groups” and informing WHO of deaths and hospitalizations due to the disease.
“We at WHO do not forget about the disease, and governments should not do this either,” the head of the UN health agency concluded.
Since the start of the pandemic at the end of 2019 WHO has recorded more than 768 million cases of the disease worldwide, 6.9 million of them fatal, making the health crisis one of the worst since the 1918 influenza crisis.
Compared to the worst moments of the pandemic, when more than 20 million weekly cases were reported worldwide (in early 2022 with the omicron variant), in the last week of the pandemic, there were only about 10,000 infections in Europe and 20,000 in America. July, although in the Asia-Pacific region the number of positives was still relatively high (288,000 positives).
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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