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The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that in 2021 the world will face new challenges, including those associated with the coronavirus.
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Ghebreyesus said during a press conference in Geneva: “Next year … problems are expected, for example, new types of Covid-19 will appear,” while noting the need to provide assistance to people who are tired of the epidemic.
The director of the World Health Organization also requested the exchange of epidemiological information with the United Nations and other countries.
In a related matter, the official responsible for managing the epidemic at the World Health Organization, Maria Van Kerkhove, believed that the mutation of the coronavirus will continue in the future.
Kerkove said the World Health Organization continues to closely monitor the situation and work with experts from around the world who are studying new mutations of the virus.
“Mutations will continue. Mutations are a natural process. This does not particularly affect the virus itself, but we must continue to study these options, including from the point of view of the possibility of transmission,” said the international expert in this regard.
The epidemiologist of the World Health Organization revealed that the international organization has its groups of specialists who study new types of Corona virus, adding that she indicated that “the results of their work will be received in the coming days and weeks.”
Earlier, the director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that the organization is working with scientists around the world to understand how the Corona virus has mutated, noting in the same context the importance of promoting progress in the field of genome sequencing to detect new types of Corona virus.
Notably, British Health Minister Matt Hancock had announced on December 23 that the second Corona virus mutation that had been identified in the country was exotic, and most likely had arrived in Britain from the Republic of South Africa.
Source: Novosti
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