The World Health Organization (WHO) reported in its latest press conference that coronavirus deaths increased by 35% worldwide in the last month.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus added that “in the last week alone, 15,000 people around the world lost their lives due to COVID-19.”
“This is completely unacceptable, when we have all the tools to prevent infections and save lives,” said the official and then added: “We are all tired of this virus and the pandemic. But the virus is not tired of us."
During the conference it was shared that the Ómicron variant continues to be the dominant one and the BA.5 subvariant represents more than 90% of the sequences shared in the last month.
However, the headline highlighted that the number of sequences shared per week has fallen by 90% since the beginning of 2022 and the number of countries that share them has fallen by 75%, "which makes it much more difficult to understand how the virus may be changing." .
Dr. Tedros insisted on vaccination against the coronavirus and recommended the use of masks when social distance and crowds cannot be respected, especially in closed spaces.
"There is a lot of talk about learning to live with the virus, but we cannot live with 15,000 deaths a week; we cannot live with the increase in hospitalizations and deaths and we cannot live with unequal access to vaccines and other tools to cope to the virus," he claimed.
"Learning to live with Covid-19 does not mean that we pretend that it is not there. It means that we use the tools we have to protect ourselves, and to protect others," he concluded.
