Gaps in surveillance, testing, sequencing and vaccination are continuing to create perfect conditions for a new COVID-19 variant of concern to emerge: WHO
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has once again alerted lapses in strategies to tackle Covid-19 this year continue to create the perfect conditions for a "deadly new variant" to emerge.
"WHO estimates that at least 90% of the world’s population now has some level of immunity to SARS-CoV-2, due to prior infection or vaccination. We are much closer to being able to say that the emergency phase of the pandemic is over – but we’re not there yet," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media interaction.
"Gaps in surveillance, testing, sequencing and vaccination are continuing to create the perfect conditions for a new variant of concern to emerge that could cause significant mortality," he said.
COVID-19 pandemic hit the world late in 2019 and showed its deadly form in 2020.
Even now, several Chinese cities have been put under lockdown to tackle the virial infection.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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