WHO warns of global peak, regrets restrictions lifted prematurely

The world is moving towards “The highest Covid-19 infection rate to date during the pandemic” due to the explosive increase in cases in many parts of the planet, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, which attributed part of the responsibility to the “premature” lifting of certain restrictions.

Two extreme examples illustrate the WHO alert: India has recorded a record number of infections with more than 217,000 positive cases on the last day and nearly 1,200 deaths in a single day; and Papua New Guinea, an island of 8.7 million people and isolated by its geography, which until the start of the year had only 900 cases, now has ten-fold infections.

At a press conference in Geneva, Tedros lamented that coronavirus cases and deaths “continue to rise at an alarming rate. At the World level, the number of new cases per week has almost doubled in the past two months, ”he said. according to the Europa Press news agency.

Based on their data, these figures indicate that the world “is approaching the highest infection rate we have seen so far during the pandemic”.

Tedros pointed out that one reason for this is that some countries that previously avoided widespread transmission are now seeing “a sharp increase in infections”., with global epicenters in Brazil and India.

Among the factors that influence the most, the director of WHO He also pointed to the rapid spread of variants of the coronavirus, which make it more contagious; and that people started again mixed by the “premature” lifting of certain restrictions.

In this context, WHO has again rejected the idea that a “passport” or “certificate” of vaccination will soon become a travel requirement. because it is not proven that a vaccinated person, even protected against severe symptoms, cannot be a carrier and transmit the virus to others.