The World Health Organization (WHO) updated the Global COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy last week, highlighting the value of immunizing the most vulnerable groups, including all health and care professionals, all older persons, and those most at risk.
Digital Desk: The
recent rise in hospitalizations and fatalities linked to COVID-19 infections
has alarmed the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO's Dr. Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus said that COVID-19 hospitalizations and fatalities had been rising
upward for the previous five weeks during a media briefing on Wednesday. The
waves of transmission caused by Omicron subvariants are also causing rising
hospitalization trends in some countries, he added. According to him, COVID-19
mortality has been rising over the past five weeks.
Tedros cautioned people not to relax their
guard despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from ended and that
"we are now in a very different circumstance from where we were a year
ago, and we have learned a number of crucial things."
He
stated that "even in some countries that have reached 70 percent
vaccination coverage, mortality will continue, health systems will remain under
pressure, and the global recovery will be at risk" if a sizable portion of
healthcare professionals, the elderly, and other at-risk populations are not
immunized. He also emphasized the value of using vaccination as a life-saving
panacea.
The World Health Organization (WHO) updated the Global COVID-19
Vaccination Strategy last week, highlighting the value of immunizing the most
vulnerable groups, including all health and care professionals, all older
persons, and those most at risk.
The WHO director urged everyone to "strive for the aim of 70
percent vaccine coverage, with an emphasis on targeted immunization programs
that prioritize the most vulnerable" in order to save the greatest number
of lives.
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