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The World Health Organization (WHO) stated on Friday that the Covid-19 pandemic emergency phase was “far closer” to being over, but it also issued a warning that Omicron was still spreading wildly and was still killing a lot of people.

The WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated at a press conference held here that “we are considerably closer to being able to announce that the emergency phase of the epidemic is finished — but we’re not there yet.”

“Omicron has demonstrated to be substantially more transmissible than its predecessor, Delta, and continues to cause significant mortality due to the intensity of transmission,” is the explanation for this.

According to Tedros, “gaps in surveillance, testing, sequencing, and immunization continue to provide the ideal conditions for a novel variant of concern to develop that could cause severe mortality.”

Although more than 8,500 people died last week, statistics from the WHO reveal that the number of weekly deaths reported to them has been slightly declining over the previous five weeks.

When we have so many resources at our disposal to stop infections and save lives, it’s “not acceptable three years into the pandemic,” he said.

Omicron, of which over 500 sublineages are circulating, tends to produce less severe disease than earlier versions of concern, the WHO director acknowledged.

Due to earlier infection or immunization, according to WHO estimates, at least 90% of the world’s population currently has some level of protection against SARS-CoV-2.

At least 2.5 million cases worldwide were reported to WHO in the previous week alone, but that number was a glaring underestimation of the virus’s global spread, according to Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program.

According to some estimates based on wastewater data, the number of new cases in some nations may be up to five times higher, indicating that the virus is still rampantly spreading over the world.

“Therefore, we have not yet achieved the goal of (vaccinating) all at-risk persons worldwide in every country at 100%. These people include those over the age of 60, those with underlying diseases, the immunocompromised, and our frontline workers. And on this, we urge governments to concentrate “Van Kerkhove remarked.

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