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The World Health Organization (WHO) warned this Friday that in the next six months there may be a high number of infections and deaths from covid-19, despite the vaccination that is starting. in various countries.
“The vaccine is a cause for hope and we must celebrate, but the next three to six months will be difficult. Countries with intense transmission of the virus will see that it will intensify,” warned the director of the WHO’s health emergency program.
At a press conference, Mike Ryan said that countries that have the pandemic situation under control may, in the coming months, “suffer to continue like this”, taking as an example regions of East Asia, where the number of infections begins to increase in some cities. , after months of relative stability.
“Past success is not a guarantee of future success” in containing the pandemic, emphasized the WHO expert, warning that even when vaccines are available, at first they will not be in sufficient quantity to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
Several countries, such as Brazil and the United States, did not come out of the first wave with the situation under control and now face “an intense period”, which means that they have to “implement all the necessary preventive measures.”
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 1,662,792 deaths as a result of more than 74.8 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (310,792) and also with the most confirmed cases of infection (more than 17.2 million).
Next, in number of deaths, Brazil (184,827 dead, more than 7.1 million cases), India (143,709 dead, more than 9.9 million infected), Mexico (116,487 dead, more than 1 million), 2 million infected) and Italy (67,894 deaths, more than 1.9 million cases).
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