On the 25th local time, WHO held a routine press conference for new coronary pneumonia. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the number of new confirmed cases and new deaths worldwide remained stable last week, but remained at a high level.
Epidemics vary significantly from country to country. The number of confirmed cases and deaths in some countries and regions continues to increase sharply, while the number of cases in other countries and regions is declining.
Tan Desai emphasized that the benefits and safety of the booster vaccine are still uncertain, and the majority of people in low- and middle-income countries have not been vaccinated against the new crown vaccine, resulting in a chance for the virus to spread.
This means that there will be new variants in the future, which may even be stronger than the delta variants, and may evade the protective effects of existing vaccines and cause the vaccine to fail.
Tan Desai called on countries to avoid booster shots at present, so that countries with very low levels of vaccination can get vaccines.
(Headquarters reporter Zhu He)