Former president of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Gonçalo Vecina said in an interview with CNN this Friday (26), that the lack of vaccination creates variants of the new coronavirus in poorer countries.
We are allowing the virus to reproduce around the world. We are protecting ourselves in Brazil, Europe and the United States and creating variants in poor countries
Gonçalo Vecina, former president of the National Health Surveillance Agency
According to Vecina, the Ômicron variant is not more lethal than the previous ones, but it is potentially more contagious.
“This variant, it seems, could be more widespread. I don’t say it’s more lethal, but it manages to spread more by the characteristics it came from,” he said.
The former president of Anvisa also said that there is a risk that this new variant is resistant to vaccines and that, therefore, studies are needed.
“There is a possibility that this virus is resistant to one of the four vaccines that we use in Brazil, or outside Brazil as well, because they have the same technology. We have to look quickly at this, and, if we have to move, move with the vaccines and update our vaccination”, concluded Vecina.
Reference: CNN Brasil
