The coronavirus pandemic is “nowhere near over,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned , citing new waves around the world and voicing concern the virus is “running freely.”
Ghebreyesus said he was worried that rising SARS-CoV-2 infection numbers were “putting further pressure on stretched health systems and health workers.” Amid increasing transmission and rising COVID-19 hospitalizations, Tedros urged governments to “deploy tried and tested measures like masking, improved ventilation and test and treat protocols.”
“Vaccines have saved millions of lives and it’s important for governments to focus on boosting those most at-risk communities, finding the unvaccinated so as to build up the wall of immunity toward the 70% vaccination target,” he added.