As the Covid continues to rage around the world, this Thursday, April 14, the WHO warned that we are still in the midst of the epidemic and that the disease has not yet become “endemic”.
This is not the time for joy or victory over the Covid. The WHO actually issued an alert this Thursday April 14th.
Not near an endemic situation
“We’re still in the middle of this pandemic, we all wish it wasn’t but we are not in an endemic stage”said the head of the fight against the Covid for the WHO, Maria Van Kerkhove, during a press conference on the global situation related to the coronavirus.
WHO Emergency Manager Michel Ryan, who was by his side, added: “I don’t think we’re nearly endemic with this virus“. For him the disease, “is still capable of causing large epidemics, as we have seen, and even within populations previously exposed, he warned.
“Don’t Let Your Guard Down”
What worries the WHO is also to see that the epidemic is increasing again, while the general level of protection of the population is falling. As TF1 reports, the WHO Emergency Committee on Covid-19 was unanimous this week that this was not the case “Time to Lose Your Guard”.
A situation that justifies maintaining the highest level of alert for the director of the WHO in the face of Covid.