WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the dangerous phase of Covid-19 could be completed by mid-2022 for two reasons. First, vaccination rates in some countries are already very high. Second, the severity of Covid-19 symptoms carried by the Omicron variant is not as severe as the previous variants.
But [the Covid-19 pandemic] doesn't (end completely), not when 70,000 people a week die from preventable and treatable diseases," Ghebreyesus said in a speech at the Munich Security Conference last weekend, quoted by Business Insider, Monday (28/28). /2/2022).
Tedros said the pandemic will continue as long as 83% of the population on the African continent have not received even a single dose of the vaccine. In addition, he said Covid-19 was still a threat as long as a vulnerable health system existed and little supervision was carried out to track the evolution of this disease.
Separately, WHO Director of Emergencies Michael Ryan said 2022 would be a turning point for a pandemic that could turn into an endemic state. According to the KBBI, endemic means a disease that is contagious in an area or in a group of people.
WHO predicts that the Covid-19 pandemic will be over as long as global vaccination coverage is on target. The organization targets 70% of the world's population to have received the vaccine by mid-2022.
Currently, the countries that have recorded the highest Covid-19 cases are the United States, India and Brazil. Meanwhile, on the European continent, the countries that reported the most Covid-19 cases were France, Europe and Russia.
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