The WHO worries the whole world with a new extremely dangerous alarm signal, which brings to the attention of all people how serious the global situation is at the moment in terms of the way in which the Coronavirus pandemic is evolving, and this is because the number of infections continues to be large, and to generate mutations.
The WHO talks in a first phase about the distribution of Omicron subvariants at a global level, BA.5 being now combined with BQ.1 for 50% of the total infections, while BA.2.7.5 and XBB together gather 20% of the total, but the three are dangerous because treatments with monoclonal antibodies are no longer as effective.
The WHO also talks about the decrease in testing and sequencing, which leads to a major problem from the point of view of discovering new circulating variants, but also of examining the seriousness of the forms of the disease they produce, some countries fearing the fact that from New dangerous variants of the Coronavirus may come to China.
The WHO says that the situation in China is a worrying one, because there are extremely many daily infections among the population, but also that extremely careful monitoring is needed for the discovery of new possible variants that can generate serious forms of the disease among people, variants that can it reaches the entire globe very easily.
“Of the available sequences, #Omicron BA.5 subvariants remain dominant worldwide, including BQ.1, which accounts for approximately 50% of sequences globally. BA.2.75 and XBB account for 14% and 6% of sequences globally, respectively.
Testing and sequencing for SARS-CoV-2 continues to decline, making tracking by the World Health Organization and TAG-VE difficult. It's not about more, it's about strategic sequencing with good geographic representation.”
