COVID not reaching its end game, rather new variants will emerge: WHO
"It is dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant, or that we are in the endgame. On the contrary, globally the conditions are ideal for more variants to emerge," Ghebreyesus said.;
Geneva: It is dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant, or the pandemic is going to end, when global conditions are seen as ideal for more Covid variants to emerge, said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief on Monday.
Addressing the 150th session of WHO's executive board, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Omicron, which was first identified in late November, has spread to 171 countries.
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More than 80 million cases of the highly contagious variant have been reported to WHO, more than the Covid cases reported in the whole of 2020, he said.
However, he noted that the "explosion in cases" has so far "not been matched by a surge in deaths".
Ghebreyesus said that the pandemic is not going to end, rather new variants will emerge.
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