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The World Health Organization (WHO) has increased the spot of concern with their warning of the high transmissible COVID variant Omnicron will not be the last variant of the virus and the emergence of other strains is very high.
This information was given by WHO COVID 19 technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove in a press conference on Tuesday.
In the statement to the press, Kerkhove said “Omicron is the latest Variant of Concern. It will not be the last concern that the agency will speak of. The next one that will come, hopefully, it will take some time to get there but with the level of intensity of spread, the possibility that we will have other variants is quite high. So, we need to ensure that we, again not only increase vaccination coverage but we also take measures to reduce the spread”.
Kerkhove added further “ I think if there is a word beyond tragic it’s sad and unfortunately out of that 500,000, 100,000 are in the US reported since Omnicron. So, while everyone was saying Omnicron is milder, I think we missed the point that half a million people have died since the virus has been deducted”.
Two officials of WHO said “ We know a lot about the virus but we do not know everything just yet and variants are the wildcards. We are tracking this virus in real-time as it minutes, as it changes and we have an excellent group of people around the world and working to fight the virus”.
Indian Update of the COVID 19 virus
With the start of the election polls in the country, India has reported 67,084 Covid cases with 1242 deaths in the last 24 hours. Although the active cases are reported to be 7.90 lakh.
Along with the cases India has reported 1,67,882 recovered cases in the time period adding to the total recovering to be 4,11,80,751. This takes the recovery rate at 96.95%.
When talking about an individual state then Maharashtra tops the list with 43,211 cases with 19 new deaths in the last 24 hours. Karnataka is the second state with 28,723 cases with 14 deaths.