The coronavirus pandemic is “nowhere near over”, the World Health Organization’s chief has warned, citing new waves around the world and voicing concern the virus is “running freely”.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday he was worried that case numbers are continuing to rise. Amid increasing COVID transmission and rising hospitalisations, he urged governments to “deploy tried and tested measures like masking, improved ventilation and test and treat protocols”.
Also, WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan had said global COVID cases reported to the WHO increased by 30 percent in the last two weeks, largely driven by Omicron sub-variants BA.4, BA.5 and the lifting of public health and social measures.
Not to mention, the WHO concern that the trajectory of virus evolution and the characteristics of emerging variants remained “uncertain and unpredictable”, with the absence of measures to reduce transmission increasing the likelihood of “new, fitter variants emerging, with different degrees of virulence, transmissibility, and immune escape potential”.
Whatever. Most countries are already pretty relaxed about Covid anyway. Except, of course, China.
And in the case of Malaysia, we are still saddled with 3,934 Covid cases as at yesterday.
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