WHO: Taking Corona vaccination is better than not

The World Health Organization called for accelerating the vaccination process  to confront the variables of the Coronavirus, noting that even if the effectiveness of the vaccine is less against “Omicron”, vaccination is still better than not.

 “We are now beginning to see the rapid increase in transmission, although the exact rate of increase in relation to other variables is currently still difficult, so it will be important to carefully monitor what is happening around the world,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement published today. “ It will be important to carefully  monitor what is happening in the whole world to understand if Omciron can outperform Delta.”

Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical team leader on Covid 19, said: “We are seeing a rise in transmission in South Africa and we are seeing an increasing number of reports around the world on the Omicron variant. There are challenges in our understanding of its spread. One of the things we are looking at now is how Omicron spreads among different societies”. She called for an acceleration in the administration of vaccines because the vaccines proved efficient against  the delta variant and even if there is less efficacy for Omicron, vaccination is still better than not.

According to the experts of the United Nations, some features of “Omicron”, including its global spread and the large number of its mutations, indicate that it can have a significant impact on the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is still difficult to know exactly what this impact will be.

Inas Abdulkareem