The World Health Organization (WHO) Chairman Soumya Swaminathan on Friday warned of future Coronavirus variants and said the world was not at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. “We have seen a virus evolving, mutated … so we know there will be more variants, more variants of concern, so we are not at the end of the pandemic,” Swaminathan said as quoted in South Africa by Reuters Top scientists made the statement during a visit to the vaccine manufacturing facility with who the Director General of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Swaminathan’s comments came a few days after WHO Covid-19 Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkrove warned that the Omicron strain would not be the last and the possibility of other new variants was very high. Kerkhove said that the global health agency tracked four different versions of Omicron.
“We know a lot about this virus, but we don’t know everything. And frankly, the variant is a wild card. So we track this virus in real time when mutating because it changes but this virus has a lot of space to be moved,” he said. “Omicron is. The latest variant of worries. It won’t be the last variant that is a concern who will talk about. The next one, you know, it will come, it will continue to get there. But with the level of deployment intensity, it is likely that we will have another variant Very high, “he said.
So we need to make sure that we are again, not only increases vaccination coverage, but we also take steps to reduce the spread, “he added. Since the appointment of B.1.1.529 as a variant that is a concern on November 26, 2021, some genealogies have been identified. This includes the lineage of Pango Ba.1, BA.1.1, BA.2 and BA.3, all of which are monitored by who is under the umbrella ‘omicron’.
“BA.2 is more contagious than BA.1 so we hope to see BA.2 increasing detection throughout the world, said Van Kerkhove. According to the Weekly Health Health Epidemiology Report on Tuesday, Omicron variants are increasingly dominant – making almost 97 percent of all case.
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