GENEVA --
A World Well being Group spokesperson stated on Friday that the top of the COVID-19 pandemic was a great distance off, citing an increase in instances in its newest weekly information.
The UN well being company has beforehand stated that the acute part of the pandemic might finish this yr however it will rely upon how shortly we meet its goal to vaccinate 70% of the inhabitants in every nation, amongst different components.
Requested by a journalist at a Geneva media briefing concerning the timing of the pandemic's finish, Margaret Harris stated it was "removed from over." "We're undoubtedly in the midst of the pandemic," she added.
After greater than a month of decline, COVID-19 instances began to extend all over the world final week, the WHO stated, with lockdowns in Asia and China's Jilin province battling to comprise an outbreak.
A mixture of things was inflicting the will increase, together with the extremely transmissible Omicron variant and its cousin the BA.2 subvariant, and the lifting of public well being and social measures, the WHO stated.
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