The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urged countries on Tuesday to maintain monitoring of infections in COVID-19, saying that we are “blind” in the way the virus spreads Due to the drop in test rates.At a press conference at the headquarters of the United Nations Agency in Geneva, the WHO chief said: “Like many countries reduce tests, which receives less and less information on transmission and sequencing. “He added: “It makes us more and more blind to the models of transmission and evolution.”Meanwhile, the WHO Emergency Committee on COVID-19 unanimously confirmed that the virus remains a major public health danger and insisted that countries must stop dropping their guard.
With many nations relaxing public health and social measures and considerably reducing tests for the virus, the group of experts from the World Health Organization said that the pandemic was far from over. “Now is not the time to drop our guard – on the contrary, and it is an extremely strong recommendation,” said committee president Didier Houssin at a press conference.”The situation is far from finished with regard to the cocovid-19 pandemic, the circulation of the virus is still very active, mortality remains high and the virus evolves unpredictable,” warned the French doctor.
“This is not the time to relax this virus, or weakness of surveillance, tests and reports, or laxity in public and social health measures and no resignation in terms of vaccination.” The committee meets every three months to discuss the pandemic and is the responsibility of the WHO chief.He concluded that the pandemic still constitutes an emergency of public health of international concern (Pheic) – the highest level of alert than the which can ring.
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