According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the world is currently in the early stages of a third wave.
In his opening remarks at the 8th meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on COVID-19, he declared, “We are now in the early stages of a third wave.”
Cases of COVID-19 have been growing globally in the last week, according to the WHO, and mortality has begun to rise again. Furthermore, following a 10-week period of reductions, “deaths are climbing again,” he warned. “The Delta variation is one of the key drivers of the current surge in transmission, which is fueled by greater social mixing and mobility, as well as inconsistent application of proven public health and social interventions,” he explained.
“The Delta version is presently in more than 111 countries,” according to Ghebreyesus, and the WHO predicts that “it will soon be the dominant COVID-19 strain circulating worldwide if it isn’t already.”
“A disturbing imbalance in the global distribution of vaccines,” the WHO chief said. Meanwhile, the WHO director-general stated that “many nations still have not gotten any vaccines, and most have not received adequate vaccines,” leaving the majority of the world’s population “at the mercy of the virus.”
“COVAX can work,” said Ghebreyesus, “but the scale is still far too tiny, with just over 100 million doses distributed.”
