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Omicron less severe than Delta but still poses danger for unvaccinated: WHO

In its weekly epidemiological report on Tuesday, the WHO said cases increased by 55 percent, or 15 million, in the week to January 9 from a week earlier - by far the most cases reported in a single week.Omicron less severe than Delta but still poses danger for unvaccinated: WHO
A medical worker performs a health screening on a woman who will receive a booster dose vaccine against Covid-19, as the country starts the booster vaccination program for the general public amid the rises of the Omicron variant in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 12, 2022. Reuters
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Published at : January 13, 2022
Updated at : January 13, 2022 10:26

The highly infectious Omicron coronavirus variant causes less severe disease than the Delta strain but it remains a “dangerous virus”, particularly for those who are unvaccinated, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a news briefing, director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said more than 90 countries were yet to meet the target of vaccinating 40 percent of their populations and more than 85 percent of people in Africa were yet to receive a single dose.

“We mustn't allow this virus a free ride or wave the white flag, especially when so many people around the globe remain unvaccinated,” he said.

In its weekly epidemiological report on Tuesday, the WHO said cases increased by 55 percent, or 15 million, in the week to January 9 from a week earlier - by far the most cases reported in a single week.

“This huge spike in infections is being driven by the Omicron variant, which is rapidly replacing Delta in almost all countries,” Tedros said.

He said the majority of people hospitalised around the world with Covid-19 were unvaccinated and that if transmission was not curtailed there was greater risk of another variant emerging that could be even more transmissible, and more deadly, than Omicron.


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