Covid, Sileri: "Delta prevailing variant within 10 days"
The circular from the Ministry of Health: against the Delta variant, track, sequence and vaccinate
Coronavirus, Delta variant alarm: the plan of the government and the Regions
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July 12, 2021 "We continue to receive news from all regions of the world about hospitals that are reaching maximum capacity". "The Delta variant is circling the world at a blazing pace, leading a new spike in cases and deaths."
And "as countries relax public health and social measures, they must consider the impact on health workers and health systems." This is the warning of the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, during the usual press conference to take stock of the Covid-19 epidemic.
"Especially in low-income countries - he added - exhausted health workers are fighting to save lives amid a shortage of personal protective equipment, oxygen and treatments".
"Last week marked the fourth consecutive week of rising Covid-19 cases globally, with increases in all but one WHO Regions. And after 10 weeks of decline, deaths are rising again." .
The Delta variant of Sars-CoV-2 "is now present in more than 104 countries and we anticipate that it will soon become the dominant strain in circulation around the world. The world is watching in real time, as the virus continues to change and become more transmissible ".
"Not everywhere" countries are suffering "the same blow. We are in the midst of a growing two-way pandemic," he stressed. The Delta variant also runs "in places with high vaccination coverage," he warned. In these countries, the Sars-CoV-2 mutant "is spreading rapidly, mainly infecting unprotected and vulnerable people and constantly exerting pressure on health systems".
In countries with low vaccination coverage, "the situation is particularly serious. Delta and other highly transmissible variants are driving catastrophic waves of Covid, which are resulting in a high number of hospitalizations and deaths".