"While the use of additional boosters may be part of contingency plans, re-vaccinations at short intervals did not represent a sustainable long-term strategy," the organization's head of vaccination strategy, Marco Cavalli, said in a press release late Monday.
"It can be done once, or maybe twice, but it's not something we can think should be repeated all the time," he stressed.
The warning from such a senior organization comes against the background of plans in several countries around the world to expand the vaccination campaign, something that has already become a reality in Israel after the Naftali Bennett government approved a fourth vaccine for the population over 60.
As you may recall, yesterday the World Health Organization warned that half of the population in Europe could become infected in Corona in the coming weeks following the current wave in the form of the Omicron variant.
New record in Germany: 80,000 verified
Meanwhile, the number of people diagnosed with the virus in Germany has reached a new high in the last day with over 80,000 verified, said the Robert Koch Institute, the body responsible for monitoring the country's disease.
The death toll rose to 384 and has reached 114,735 since the epidemic began about two years ago.
Corona ward at a hospital in Bochum, Germany, Photo: AFP
In the United States, White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Pauchi is concerned about the low level of vaccination in a third booster dose, which stands at only 23 percent, according to official numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The infectious ability, whose effectiveness is unprecedented, he will actually find them all, "the senior official warned.
The daily average of those infected in the US is approaching the 800,000 mark in the last week while the number of hospitalized broke the third record of January last year with about 145,000 people who are currently being treated in hospitals.
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