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The World Health Organization’s director-general stated on Tuesday that there has been a “very concerning increase” in Covid-19 deaths around the world and that preventing the virus from spreading is still a priority.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a webinar, said that it had been two years since a public health emergency of international concern was proclaimed over the spread of Covid-19, the greatest level of alert under international law.

He said there were fewer than 100 cases at the time and no deaths reported outside of China.

“Two years later, more than 370 million illnesses and 5.6 million fatalities have been reported – and we know these figures are an underestimate,” Tedros stated.

Since Omicron was discovered just ten weeks ago, “almost 90 million cases have been reported to WHO – more than were reported in the entire year of 2020,” he claimed.

“In most parts of the world, we are now seeing a very concerning increase in deaths,” Tedros added.

Over 22 million instances were reported to the WHO in the last seven days, according to Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead.

There is still work to be done to avoid transmission.

“We’re concerned that a narrative has emerged in some places that preventing transmission is no longer viable or required due to immunizations and omicron’s high transmissibility and lesser severity,” Tedros added.

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said because greater transmission implies more deaths.

He emphasized that the WHO is not advocating any country to resort to “so-called lockdowns,” but rather that all governments should provide protection using all available tools, not only vaccines.

“Any country surrendering or declaring triumph is premature,” Tedros added. “This virus is hazardous, and it is evolving right in front of our eyes.” BA.2 is one of four sub-lineages of the Omicron variant of concern that WHO is actively tracking.”

Because the virus will continue to change, the WHO encourages governments to maintain testing, surveillance, and sequencing, he noted.

“We can’t battle this virus unless we know what it’s doing,” Tedros said, adding that the world “must keep working to ensure that all people have access to immunizations.”

Vaccines may also need to change, he said, because viral variations may continue to elude neutralizing antibodies created by vaccines against previous strains.

Furthermore, the reservoir of beta coronaviruses is large, and further crosses to humans are probable, according to Tedros.

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