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Shirika la Afya Duniani (WHO) limesema Visa Milioni 9.5 vimeripotiwa ulimwenguni Wiki iliyopita, ikiwa ni ongezeko la 71%.
Japokuwa Kirusi cha Omicron kimeonekana kutosababisha makali kama Delta, WHO imesema Kirusi hicho hakipaswi kuainishwa kama 'Hakina makali'.
Mkuu wa Shirika hilo, Dkt. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus amesema kama ilivyokuwa kwa aina zilizopita, Omicron inapelekea watu kulazwa na inaua. Pia, kasi ya idadi kubwa ya maambukizi inapelekea Mifumo ya Afya kuzidiwa.
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The World Health Organization said a record 9.5 million cases of COVID-19 were tallied around the world last week, marking a 71 percent weekly surge that amounted to a “tsunami” as the new Omicron coronavirus variant sweeps worldwide.
However, the number of recorded deaths declined.
“Last week, the highest number of COVID-19 cases were reported so far in the pandemic,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday. He said the WHO was certain that was an underestimate because of a backlog in testing around the year-end holidays.
The UN health agency, in its weekly report on the pandemic, said the weekly count amounted to 9,520,488 new cases – with 41,178 deaths recorded last week compared with 44,680 in the week before that.
WHO officials have long cited a lag between case counts and deaths, with changes in the death counts often trailing about two weeks behind the evolution of case counts.
They have also noted that the more infectious Omicron variant appears to produce less severe disease than the globally dominant Delta strain, but should not be categorised as “mild”.
“Just like previous variants, Omicron is hospitalising people, and it’s killing people,” Ghebreyesus said.
“In fact, the tsunami of cases is so huge and quick that it is overwhelming health systems around the world,” he added.
Governments have struggled to tame the virus, which has killed more than 5.8 million people.
The WHO said the rises in case counts during the last week varied, doubling in the Americas region, but rising only 7 percent in Africa.
The WHO emergencies chief, Dr Michael Ryan, said speculation that Omicron might be the last variant of the outbreak was “wishful thinking” and cautioned: “There still is a lot of energy in this virus.”
Source: Al Jazeera
Japokuwa Kirusi cha Omicron kimeonekana kutosababisha makali kama Delta, WHO imesema Kirusi hicho hakipaswi kuainishwa kama 'Hakina makali'.
Mkuu wa Shirika hilo, Dkt. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus amesema kama ilivyokuwa kwa aina zilizopita, Omicron inapelekea watu kulazwa na inaua. Pia, kasi ya idadi kubwa ya maambukizi inapelekea Mifumo ya Afya kuzidiwa.
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The World Health Organization said a record 9.5 million cases of COVID-19 were tallied around the world last week, marking a 71 percent weekly surge that amounted to a “tsunami” as the new Omicron coronavirus variant sweeps worldwide.
However, the number of recorded deaths declined.
“Last week, the highest number of COVID-19 cases were reported so far in the pandemic,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday. He said the WHO was certain that was an underestimate because of a backlog in testing around the year-end holidays.
The UN health agency, in its weekly report on the pandemic, said the weekly count amounted to 9,520,488 new cases – with 41,178 deaths recorded last week compared with 44,680 in the week before that.
WHO officials have long cited a lag between case counts and deaths, with changes in the death counts often trailing about two weeks behind the evolution of case counts.
They have also noted that the more infectious Omicron variant appears to produce less severe disease than the globally dominant Delta strain, but should not be categorised as “mild”.
“Just like previous variants, Omicron is hospitalising people, and it’s killing people,” Ghebreyesus said.
“In fact, the tsunami of cases is so huge and quick that it is overwhelming health systems around the world,” he added.
Governments have struggled to tame the virus, which has killed more than 5.8 million people.
The WHO said the rises in case counts during the last week varied, doubling in the Americas region, but rising only 7 percent in Africa.
The WHO emergencies chief, Dr Michael Ryan, said speculation that Omicron might be the last variant of the outbreak was “wishful thinking” and cautioned: “There still is a lot of energy in this virus.”
Source: Al Jazeera
