The pandemic, which began two years ago, has crossed several milestones this year: the number of coronavirus detected in early January this year was 300 million, 400 million in early February and 500 million on Tuesday.
However, the actual number of victims is definitely several times higher. There are many people in this world of about eight billion people who have been infected with Kovid-19. But their names were not added to the identification list as they were not tested.
Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, called the trend “dangerous.” “If you don’t get tested, you won’t know what kind of virus you have,” he said in a recent interview.
WHO regional officials recently called on African countries to increase covid testing and contract tracing. In addition, several countries in the Americas have been advised to double the speed of immunization and testing.
Infections are still on the rise in European countries.
According to a WHO analysis, by September 2021, 75% of people in Africa were infected with Covid-19. Which is almost a hundred times more than the total number of patients identified on the continent at that time.
However, the number of new identities is decreasing day by day all over the world. Last week, an average of 1.1 million new patients were identified every day around the world. Which is 32 percent less than two weeks ago.
The number of deaths from coronavirus has also decreased. Last week, an average of 3,600 people died every day in the world. This is also less than two weeks ago.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanam Gabriasus believes that the world is still in the grip of an epidemic, despite the decline in detection and deaths. Many health experts agree with him.
But despite warnings from experts, many countries are now lifting the ban on epidemics.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines for public health in late February, saying most Americans no longer need to wear masks. They do not have to accept social distances or gatherings in confined spaces.
“What is happening in the world and in the United States?” Are people getting frustrated? Are they desperate to get back to normal? ”
It is because of this desperate desire to return to normal life that Omicron’s subunit BA.2 is threatening to spread around the world at rocket speeds. BA2 is by far the fastest contagious type of coronavirus identified.
Most of the new patients now being identified in the world and in the United States have been infected with this type of virus.
Vaccines are the most powerful weapon in human hands against the coronavirus epidemic. According to the University of Oxford’s ‘Our World in Data’ project, 5.1 billion people have so far received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine; Which is 7.4 percent of the total population of the world.
Moreover, more than 1.6 billion people have received booster doses. But the rate of vaccination is not the same in all continents. In particular, only 20 percent of people in Africa have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
