Geneva-Sana
Today, the World Health Organization warned of a new wave of infections with the Omicron mutant of the Corona virus moving towards Eastern Europe, calling on the authorities in these countries to improve vaccination and other measures in this regard.
"Over the past two weeks, cases of the virus have doubled in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine," Reuters quoted Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, as saying in a statement.
He stressed the need to take measures and countermeasures such as rapid testing for the virus and placing masks, noting that more than 165 million cases of corona have been recorded so far throughout the European region, with 25,000 deaths as a result of the disease in the past week alone.
Kluge stressed that in light of the alarming situation in the face of the tidal wave from Omicron and with the continued spread of the delta mutator also on a large scale in Eastern Europe, the time is not appropriate to lift the measures that we know work to limit the spread of Corona.
He called on the governments of these countries to study the local causes of the low vaccination rates, noting that less than 40 percent of those over the age of 60 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan have completed their Corona vaccine series.
And the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had recently announced in a press conference that after the spread of the Omicron mutant, new variants of the emerging coronavirus could appear.
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