Balkans | WHO: Covid-19 remains a serious infectious disease with global risks

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has warned that the world is not ready for the next pandemic.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the Kovid-19 outbreak still constitutes an international emergency, while the virus remains a serious infectious disease.

The World Health Organization issued a written statement after the recent meeting of the Kovid-19 Emergency Committee on whether the pandemic requires a global alert.

In the statement, it was emphasized that Kovid-19 still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

In the statement, the statement stated that the epidemic, which is “possibly in transition,” maintains its great global risks to human health.

“The committee agreed that although the Omicron sub-strains currently circulating globally are highly contagious, there is a distinction between infection and severe disease when compared with previous variants. But the virus retains its ability to evolve into new forms with unexpected characteristics.”

Therefore, there is a need to improve the research and reporting of hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths in order to adequately characterize the clinical features of Covid-19.

The statement stressed concern about the continued evolution of the virus in the context of its uncontrolled spread and the significant decline in countries reporting and sharing data on deaths, hospitalizations and classifications.

In the statement, which stated that the pandemic “may be approaching a tipping point,” some suggestions were made to reduce the global impact of the virus.

These recommendations were listed as “maintaining vaccination momentum, including the Kovid-19 vaccine in lifetime programmes, continuously detecting, assessing and monitoring emerging variants, identifying significant changes in the epidemiology of the virus, and continuing to regulate international travel related measures”.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated on January 25 that more than 170,000 people have died in the past eight weeks from COVID-19.

Red Cross: “The world is not ready for the next epidemic”

On the other hand, in a written statement issued by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), “No earthquake, drought or hurricane in recorded history has killed more lives than the outbreak of COVID-19.” It has been said.

In the statement, with the death toll estimated at more than 6.5 million, it was stressed that no country is ready for the next pandemic and that countries must prepare for “multiple dangers”.

In the statement, IFRC Secretary-General Jagan Chapagin said: “The COVID-19 outbreak should be a wake-up call for the global community to prepare now for the next health crisis. Our advice to world leaders is about leveraging local actors and communities to build trust and fight indifference. Equity and doing life-saving actions. The next pandemic may be at hand. If the experience of Covid-19 doesn’t speed up our steps toward preparedness, what will you?” Lyrics are also included.

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