At least 90% of the world’s population has become immune to Covid, according to WHO.

BUT The assessment was announced by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a video press conference.

However, Ghebreyesus warned that “gaps in surveillance, testing, sequencing” of the genetics of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 and “in vaccination continue to create ideal conditions for the emergence of a worrying new variant that could cause significant mortality.”

The world-dominant SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variant of concern to Omicron has more than 500 subvariants, all highly contagious and with genetic mutations that make it easier to overcome immune barriers without causing serious disease. WHO.

In total, the covid-19 pandemic has caused 6.6 million deaths globally and about 640 million infections, according to notifications made by countries to the WHO, which noted that the real number is much higher given cases have not always been communicated.

More than 8,500 deaths from covid-19 have been reported in the past week, a number that the WHO director-general deemed “unacceptable after three years of a pandemic” because there are “tools to prevent infections and save lives.” .

Covid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, discovered in 2019 in China and rapidly spreading around the world, with several variants and sub-variants.

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