WHO said they wanted vaccinations in all countries within 100 days.
Geneva, Switzerland:
An emergency committee called the World Health Organization on Friday to launch coronavirus order studies worldwide to counter new changes that are stalking the world.
The meeting was delayed by two weeks for urgent talks on the emerging strains of the virus, apparently as the death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic rose by two million, according to AFP account.
The emergency committee came out against countries requiring confirmation of vaccination from incoming international travelers.
However, they said it was time to review travel management recommendations with what was now known about the virus.
The WHO said it wanted the Covid-19 vaccine to be launched in all countries within the next 100 days, amid concerns that rich countries are putting off the first bags the product lines.
And while it sounded the alarm against a variety of new viruses circulating in Brazil, the WHO warned that the current infectious spikes in some countries could be to blame. paws in behavior rather than just the new mutations.
Variations and sensitivity
The recently discovered variables can only be identified by sequencing their genetic code – a study that is not possible everywhere.
“On variables, (the committee) called for a global expansion of genomic classification and data sharing, along with greater scientific collaboration to address unknowns,” the WHO said in a statement after the summit.
The committee has also called on the WHO to create a standard system for announcing new changes to keep them geographically and politically neutral, in an effort to avoid stigmatization.
In its epidemiological journal earlier this week, the WHO reported that the first-discovered coronavirus mutation in Britain had spread to 50 regions, and a South African-like rash has now spread. found in 20.
A third mutation emanating from the Brazilian Amazon is currently being studied, and could affect the immune response, according to the WHO.
The situation in the state of Amazonas in northern Brazil, and in particular its capital Manaus, has deteriorated dramatically, with hospitals pushed to a minimum said WHO emergency director Michael Ryan.
“If this continues, we are going to see a wave that is bigger than the catastrophic waves of April and May in Amazonas,” he told a news conference in Geneva.
But Ryan emphasized that it was “too easy to blame the opposite” – saying that people and authorities must accept their share of responsibility for their actions that increased referrals.
Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO technical director of Covid-19, said: “This virus is dangerous in itself – variable or not.”
‘Explanatory moment’
With regard to travel, the emergency committee recommended that countries not be required to test vaccines from incoming travelers, as the impact of vaccines on transmission reduction is not yet known and that vaccines do not. available still limited.
Committee chairman Didier Houssin said that given the divergence of countries’ approaches to visas, quarantine and travel bans, it is “genuine” for the WHO to reconsider the possible guidance be provided on international travel, land and sea.
WHO leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world was at a “special time in the pandemic”, calling for vaccines to be distributed fairly across the globe.
Around 46 countries have started their vaccination campaigns, 38 of which are high-income countries.
“I want to see the vaccine roll out in all countries over the next 100 days so that health workers and those at high risk are protected first,” he said. Tedros.
The first batch of Covid-19 cases was detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China.
A team of WHO experts arrived in Wuhan on Thursday to begin an investigation into the origin of the virus.
“We may never find out who the patient was at zero,” Van Kerkhove said.
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