世衛組織警告稱，随着監測和疫苗接種的減少，可能會出現新的新冠病毒變種New COVID variant could emerge amid drop in surveillance, vaccination, WHO warns
World health authorities are closer than ever to being able to declare the emergency phase of COVID-19 over（比以往任何時候都更接近于能夠宣布2019冠狀病毒病緊急階段的結束）, but a growing decline in surveillance and vaccination could open the door to a new variant of concern（可能為出現一種新的、令人擔憂的病毒變種打開大門）, says the World Health Organization (WHO).
There are many tools available to protect individuals from severe illness（有很多工具可以保護個人免受嚴重疾病的影響） and to track the virus and the ways it continues to mutate, but gaps in testing, sequencing and vaccination for COVID-19（但是，檢測、測序和疫苗接種方面的差距） continue to create “the perfect conditions for a new variant of concern to emerge that could cause significant mortality,”（這種差距可能為新的、令人擔憂的變種病毒創造了完美條件） WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said during a briefing Friday.
