Coronavirus – WHERE: It is better to cancel an event than to lose a life – New “bell” for the Omicron mutation

2022 should be the year in which “we will end the pandemic” wished today its general manager World Health Organization, Tentos Antanom Gebregesous, during the standard, online briefing of journalists from Geneva.

As the Christmas and New Year holidays approach, Tentros recommends to families and people who want to spend some time together, to think twice. As he characteristically said, “an event that was canceled is better than a life less.”

Tentros also noted that the Omicron mutation of SARS-CoV-2 is spreading faster than Delta and that can causes infections in people who have already been vaccinated or recovered by Covid-19.

“There is now ample evidence that Omicron is spreading significantly faster than the Delta variant. “And the vaccinated or those who recovered from Covid-19 are more likely to be infected or re-infected”, underlined the head of the WHO, according to the APE MPE.

Both Tentros and the head of the emergency department, Mike Ryan, stressed that more progress needed to be made on studies on its origins. coronavirus. The former even expressed the hope that its data sharing would improve Of China, commenting that the investigations carried out can not reach safe conclusions if Beijing does not cooperate.

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