In the past month, only 25% of countries in the world reported deaths from Covid-19and an even smaller percentage, a 11 %reported hospitalizations and ICU admissions by the disease, warned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday, which asked governments to do not lower the alert.
“It does not mean that the rest of the countries have stopped having deaths and hospitalizations, but that they do not report them“, the director general of the WHO warned at a press conference, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“There is no doubt that the Death risk or serious cases is now much less than a year ago, due to the growing immunization of the population thanks to vaccines and infections, but despite the improvement, the WHO continues to consider the Covid risk as high in public health,” he added.
Although Tedros himself declared the end of the international emergency due to Covid-19 on May 5, today he stressed that “the virus continues to circulate in all countries, continues to kill and mutate“.
“The danger of a dangerous variant emerging that could cause a sudden increase in infections and fatal cases persists,” said Tedros, who recalled that despite the end of the international emergency, a WHO expert committee continues to meet regularly to analyze the response to the virus.