WHO warns – on 19 Jan. BBC Reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the world community that The coronavirus pandemic 2019, or COVID-19, is not yet near its end. After the daily number of infected people continued to set new records in European nations.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebresus, Dr. that the Omicron mutant had low disease severity. resulting in the threat of COVID-19 It’s all over It said the virus had infected 18 million new people worldwide in just the past week. and although omikron had lower disease severity than delta But the view that COVID-19 It becomes a low-severity disease that is distorted.
The warning came after France had nearly half a million new cases in a single day. Denmark also recorded a new daily record of 33,493 cases and Italy recorded 228,179 new cases, a jump from 83,403 the day before.
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In Germany, AFP reports from the Robert Koch Institute, the country’s public health agency. That new infections in 24 hours surpassed 100,000 people for the first time at 112,323 people, the weekly incidence rate reached 584.4 people per 100,000 people in the past 7 days, 239 more deaths.
Karl Lauterbach, Minister of Health in an interview with Airtel television station that The actual number of infections could be as high as twice the official figure. and that the number of infected people will continue to be high by reaching its peak around mid-February
A sign informs people to cover mouth and nose with an FFP2 mask in front of a Covid-19 pandemic test center in the small village of Unterschleissheim near Munich, southern Germany, on January 18, 2022, amid the ongoing coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)
The German Chancellor Olaf Schalz Efforts are being made on compulsory vaccination to boost immunity for 83 million people, 60 million of whom have been fully vaccinated. But the anti-vaccination trend in the country is increasing.
Due to the COVID-19 vaccine at German biotechnology company Biontech and American pharmaceutical company Pfizer. jointly developed for the first time in Germany; There is the Liberal Democratic Party (FDEPE), the current coalition party. It is also covered in the said company. Therefore, there are doubts about compulsory vaccination.
Hundreds of protesters and sometimes thousands out on the street Against the government’s coronavirus prevention strategy and planned immunization Vaccination is essential.
“I am the one who believes it is necessary and will push forward vigorously,” Scholz told parliament last week in his first question as prime minister.
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