COVID 19: The End Is In Sight, Says WHO

Abiola Olawale
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COVID-19 On Increase In Americas, Africa – WHO

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation has said that the number of newly reported cases of COVID-19 has dropped dramatically.

“We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic,” Tedros told reporters at a virtual news conference on Wednesday. Urging the nations to keep up their efforts against the disease that has killed more than six million people.

“We are not there yet, but the end is in sight.

“Newly reported cases of the disease, which has killed millions and infected 606 million since appearing in late 2019, last week fell to the lowest level since March 2020.

“If we don’t take this opportunity now, we run the risk of more variants, more deaths, more disruption, and more uncertainty,” he said.

NDTV reports that in a bid to help countries to do what is needed to rein in the virus, the WHO published six policy briefs.

“These policy briefs are an urgent call for governments to take a hard look at their policies, and strengthen them for COVID-19 and future pathogens with pandemic potential,” Tedros said.

WHO boss also urged nations to vaccinate 100 per cent of their high-risk groups and keep testing for the virus, stressing that the rollout of vaccines and therapies has helped to stem the severity of the disease.

The WHO warned of the possibility of future waves of the virus and said countries need to maintain adequate supplies of medical equipment and healthcare workers.

“We expect there to be future waves of infections, potentially at different time points throughout the world caused by different subvariants of Omicron or even different variants of concern,” said WHO’s senior epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove.

Monkeypox cases, too, were on a downtrend but Tedros urged countries to keep up the fight.

WHO officials said last month that it is possible to eliminate the monkeypox outbreak in Europe by stepping up vaccination and testing.

“As with COVID-19, this is not the time to relax or let down our guard.”

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