• COVID-19 Deaths, Hospitalisation witness rise Globally in past 5 weeks; WHO warns

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    COVID-19 Deaths, Hospitalisation witness rise Globally in past 5 weeks; WHO warns

    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.



     



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">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.