![]() ![]() Measures to curb COVID-19 also help reduce the flu and he reminded everyone to “please, get your flu vaccine”. ![]() Meanwhile, he noted that influenza season is starting in the Northern hemisphere. “Omicron remains the dominant variant globally”, continued the WHO chief, adding that while more than 300 sub-variants are being tracked globally, weak surveillance, testing and sequencing make tracking the virus, “like chasing shadows”. ![]() Several European countries are reporting an increase in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, he told the media, but with the vaccines and therapeutics now available, “deaths don’t have to”. ![]() Tedros quoted the UN chief, saying: “This is not about generosity, this is about justice.” Omicron: ‘Like chasing shadows’ In addition to $10 million released from the CFE, WHO issued an appeal for $81.5 million to support immunizations and other life-saving health services in response to the unprecedented disaster. The country’s catastrophic flooding has damaged approximately 10 per cent of its health facilities, leaving millions without access to medical care, supplies and access to services.Īmidst new outbreaks of malaria, cholera, and dengue, WHO is focusing on supporting people in camps, those living along the roadside, individuals cut off by flood waters, and populations returning to their destroyed villages and homes. “More than 1,500 lives were lost in the floods, but many more could be lost to disease in the coming weeks, without a massive and urgent international response,” he warned. Pakistan: Post-flood diseasesĪlthough the deadly flood waters in Pakistan have stopped rising, the dangers are surging, Tedros said. Although the inoculations that curbed Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are not effective against the strain active now in Uganda, two vaccines in development could begin clinical trials in the coming weeks, pending government approval. ![]()
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