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The AFP news agency quoted Michael Ryan, director of the WHO emergency health program, on December 29, as warning that the Covid-19 pandemic is ravaging the entire world, but there are still more dangerous epidemics ahead.
“This is a wake-up call,” he emphasized at a press conference a year after China informed the WHO about Covid-19. After a year, the world registers more than 80 million infected people and almost 1.8 million people die from Covid-19.
“This pandemic is very serious, it is spreading around the world extremely rapidly and affects all corners of the planet, but it is not yet the largest,” he warned.
The official stated that while the SARS-CoV-2 that causes Covid-19 is highly contagious and fatal, the death rate is currently quite low compared to other emerging diseases. “We need to be prepared to face something that could be even more serious in the future,” he predicted.
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WHO Senior Adviser Bruce Aylward also recommended that while science has made great strides in tackling the Covid-19 crisis, including vaccine development in record time, the world is not ready yet. to take precautions. pandemics in the future.
Meanwhile, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hopes that Covid-19 will help the world to be more prepared to deal with future pandemics.
He said the WHO is working with scientists in the UK and South Africa to study two new variants of the virus that cause Covid-19 to spread more strongly than previous variants.
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