Los global covid cases They have doubled in the last month and a half, from about three million weekly to six million today, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“An increase in cases means that there may be more hospitalizations and deaths in the coming weeks,” Tedros said at a press conference, indicating that most of the current infections seem to belong to the BA.5 sublineage of the omicron variant, “because now the most contagious known.”
The head of the WHO stated that the virus “will continue to evolve and we must be prepared for what it brings”, for which he again insisted on the need not to relax in the pandemic response.
“Some countries have already dismantled parts of their response plan and are taking great risks in doing so,” said the Ethiopian expert.
Tedros added that “now is the time, when hospitals are not yet saturated, to address the shortcomings in follow-up, immunization, health personnel and resilience.”
“We will continue to see waves of infections, but we do not want them to also become waves of hospitalization and deaths”, highlighted the director general of the WHO, who insisted on the need to vaccinate health workers and older people in all countries.
For the world it is also key to maintain vaccination against covid. According to the latest data from the WHO, the immunization process is finally growing in Africa, where the application of anticovid doses increased by 75% between May and June.