World Health Organization officials said on the 8th that many countries around the world have not yet passed the peak of the epidemic brought about by the mutated new coronavirus Omilton strain. Since the mutation was discovered last November, there have been 130 million new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 500,000 new deaths worldwide. ACCORDING TO WHO data, as of 16:00 CET on the 8th, the cumulative number of confirmed covid-19 cases worldwide exceeded 396 million, and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 5.74 million. Abdi Mahmoud, WHO's COVID-19 response officer, said that "it is sad to say that the Olmikron variant is milder, but ignores the fact that 500,000 people have died since its discovery", a fact that has occurred after the advent of a COVID-19 vaccine that has been proven effective.
"We are still in the midst of an outbreak," said Maria VanKelkerkhof, WHO's technical head for COVID-19, "and many countries have not yet reached the peak of infection in Omilon." She is extremely disturbed by the fact that the number of new deaths has been on the rise in recent weeks, suggesting that "the virus is still dangerous." Omikeron has replaced the Delta mutant as the world's leading epidemic strain. According to WHO data, 96.7% of the samples that have been genetically sequenced and uploaded to the Influenza Data Sharing Global Initiative database over the past 30 days were Omi kerong, compared with 3.3% for Delta. (Xinhua News Agency, Zeta)
Source: Daily Economic News
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