The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere near over and is calling on countries to double down on efforts to ensure that ongoing vaccination campaigns persist in countries across the world. Indeed, in a worrying twist to the once prevailing narrative the world’s foremost Health and Wellness international organization asserts that given the emergence and aggressive spread of the Omicron version of pandemic, the international community could witness further variants of the virus in the period ahead.
Arising out of all this the WHO is asserting that in the circumstances tracking and assessment remain a critical element of the wider global response.
Recently, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus reported 18 million cases of the Omicron variant and while, perhaps somewhat reassuringly, he reported that the number of deaths remains stable, for the moment, he made no secret of what he said was the WHO’s concern over the role which the emergence of Omicron was playing in further stretching already overburdened medical resources and affecting the physical and mental capacities of exhausted health workers.