The World Health Organization on the eve stated that the incidence of COVID-19 in the world reached the plateau at 4.5 million officially registered cases of coronavirus infection per week. However, Coronavirus continues to mutate in countries with a population that has not been vaccinated from him, and the victory over it seems unlikely, representatives of WHO reported.
“People said that we are going to eliminate or eradicate the virus. No, it is very unlikely,” said the executive director of the WHO Emergency Situations program, Mike Ryan reports CNBC.
According to Ryan, Coronavirus “will remain with us and will develop in the same way as influenza pandemic viruses, it will become one of the viruses that affect us.” He added that the “most dangerous” delta option remains coronavirus.
“Delta option for me is the most disturbing due to increased transmissivity,” said Maria Wang Kerkhove, the WHO Group to Combating COVID-19, noting that Delta strain was twice as much as the transmissions of the original coronavirus was revealed at the end of 2019 in China.
Last week, WHO entered the Coronavirus options, representing interest, the Strain “MJ”, first discovered in Colombia. Scientists suggest that MJ can bypass the immune defense of the body, which is caused by a natural infection or vaccination. According to Kerkhov, this strain was infected in 39 countries, but he “did not take off.”