The General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adan Gebresus called for countries to prepare for a new pandemic in the fall and ensure response measures. He stated this during a briefing in Geneva, the broadcast was carried out on the organization’s page in twitter .
According to him, the situation in the world has stabilized, but the incidence and mortality remain at a very high level.
“The next three months will become a critical period to provide preparedness for the future pandemic and organizing response to it,” said Greesus.
Chapter WHO noted that the situation with the number of daily detected sick and the dead in the world has stabilized. “But this stability at a very high level is more than 4.5 million cases of diseases and 68,000 deaths,” he concluded.
Earlier, the main scientific officer of WHO Sumy Svaminan reported that the coronavirus would become endemic for India the disease. According to her, the state entered the stage of “endemicity” when the transmission of the disease is characteristic only for certain areas of the country.
August 14 in WHO reported that all over the world the share of infection with coronavirus and deaths from COVID-19 among children are growing, especially this trend is noticeable in countries with high population vaccination rates.