The Covid-19 pandemic is “far from over”, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced at a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday.
“As the virus breaks through, we need to push it back,” said Dr. Tedros, adding: “The covid-19 pandemic is far from over.”
“As hospitalizations and transmission of Covid-19 increase, governments must implement proven measures such as the use of masks, improved ventilation and test and treat protocols,” he added.
Covid remains a “public health emergency”
He spoke on the sidelines of the publication by the WHO of the results of the last meeting of the Emergency Committee for Covid-19, which took place last Friday. The UN agency has thus announced the maintenance of the Covid-19 pandemic in the range of “public health emergency of international concern”, the organization’s highest alert level, after a unanimous decision by the Committee.
The Committee points out the decline in screening and genomic sequencing, which make it “increasingly difficult” to assess the impact of Covid-19 variants, and underlines “the insufficiency of current surveillance” of the pandemic.
The Committee takes note of the recent increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in different regions of the world, as well as the lack of implementation of adequate public health measures in the regions affected by a resurgence of cases.
Source: BFM TV
