Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adan Gebresus estimated the likelihood of the emergence of new strains of coronavirus. He stated this at Briefing in Geneva, reports TASS.
According to him, the pandemic has not yet completed. Gebresus noted that in the conditions of the incredible global spread of Oomikron there is a possibility of the emergence of new options. He stressed that that is why tracking and assessment of the current situation is extremely important.
In addition, the head of WHO called on to change the distribution model of COVID-19 vaccines in the world. He added that otherwise humanity can enter into a second even more destructive phase of vaccine inequality.
Earlier, an immunologist, a candidate of medical sciences Nikolai Kryuchkov called risk groups with Omicron strain. According to Kryuchkova, from the new strain of coronavirus will often die older and children up to three years. “Omicron will begin to beat in all Russians, but the mortality will be, as before, provide more elderly and sick people. Also mortality increased among small children under 3 years old. They began to infect more often in the hospital,” the specialist said.