Geneva. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a global spike in COVID-19 cases, despite fewer tests and several weeks of decline in infections.
The WHO said cases are rising, especially in parts of Asia, urging caution to increase vaccination coverage and lifting pandemic response measures, Xinhua news agency reported.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press conference that despite fewer tests, cases are increasing rapidly globally.
He said continued local outbreaks and increases are to be expected, especially in areas where measures to prevent transmission have been lifted.
According to WHO’s COVID-19 technical chief Maria van Kerkhove, there have been more than 11 million cases in the past week. This is an increase of eight percent from the previous week.
One factor contributing to the rising cases, he said, is the Omicron variant, which is by far the most transmissible coronavirus variant. Another contributing factor is the removal of health measures such as masks, physical distancing and movement restrictions in some countries.
—AnyTV News
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