China News Service, December 1 reported that the Omi Keron strain continued to spread.
According to Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 20 countries have reported confirmed cases of the Omi Keron strain, with a total of 226 cases.
According to the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in Europe, 10 EU countries have found 44 cases of the new variant.
At the same time, many health experts once again called for the realization of "vaccine equity."
According to the analysis, if there is no uneven distribution of vaccines that leads to the emergence of stronger mutant strains, the new crown epidemic is expected to be gradually controlled in 2022 and transformed into a local epidemic that coexists with humans like other infectious diseases.
Whether the epidemic can be controlled, after all, must depend on the determination of human beings.
Data map: American infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci received the new crown vaccine at the National Institutes of Health.
[Fauci: A total of 20 cases of Omi Keron strain have been found in 20 countries]
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the United States, said on November 30 that so far, 20 countries have reported confirmed cases of the Omi Keron strain, but the United States has not yet found them.
Fauci said at the White House epidemic briefing: "As of yesterday, there were 205 confirmed cases in 18 countries, and just this morning, the number of confirmed cases in 20 countries has risen to 226."
He also said: "The mutation of this variant is very different from other noteworthy and noteworthy variants. Although some mutations have been found in the Delta strain, this variant is not a Delta strain. These mutations are associated with increased transmission and immunity. The escape is related, and the functional properties of other mutations have not been confirmed."
According to the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention on November 30, 44 cases of the new variant have been detected in 10 EU countries.
Austria, Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands have confirmed cases of this new variant.
Dutch officials said on the same day that they had detected the Omi Kiron strain in samples collected nearly two weeks ago, which was earlier than the detection of the new variant on a flight from South Africa to the Netherlands.
The National Institute of Public Health (RIVM) of the Netherlands said in a statement: "We found the Omi Keron strain in two test samples on November 19 and November 23. It is unclear whether these individuals Been to South Africa".
This suggests that the Omi Kiron strain may have entered the European Union before countries banned flights from South Africa to prevent the spread of the Omi Kiron strain.
Data map: A man wearing a mask at the Christmas Market at Gendarmenmarkt Square in Berlin, Germany.
After being cancelled due to the new crown epidemic in 2020, the annual Christmas market in Berlin reopened again.
Those who enter the market need to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated or have recovered after being infected with the new crown, and wear a mask.
Photo by Kong Fang from China News Agency
[The European Medicines Agency promises to approve the new vaccine within a few months]
European Union medical institutions have stated that the European Union may approve the new crown vaccine against the new Omi Keron strain within three to four months.
The European Medicines Agency has previously been criticized for taking too long to approve the new crown vaccine.
Pharmaceutical companies are investigating whether their new crown vaccine is still effective against the Omi Keron strain.
The European Medicines Agency said that if these vaccines eventually need to be modified, the agency will prepare to approve them within a few months.
Emer Cooke, Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency, said at the European Parliament in Brussels: “We need to be prepared in case there is a need to modify the current vaccines... we can make these vaccines available in three to four months. approve."
Cook also emphasized that the current injections will still provide protection and called on people to be vaccinated.
Ugur Sahin, the president and co-founder of the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, said that the Pfizer-BioNTech new crown vaccine may provide strong protection against severe illnesses caused by the Omi Keron variant strain.
The company is conducting a two-week experiment to analyze the blood of people who received two or three doses of Pfizer-BioNTech/Fubitai vaccine to see if the antibodies in the blood can make the Omi Keron mutant strain lose Live to determine whether a new vaccine needs to be developed.
Data map: On November 8, local time, a woman hugged her parents from France in the arrival area of an international flight at San Francisco International Airport in California.
The United States has relaxed entry restrictions on the 8th, allowing foreign passengers who have completed the entire course of the new crown vaccine to take international flights or enter through land and water ports.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan
[Expert: Whether the epidemic can be controlled depends on human decision]
Many health experts believe that if there is no uneven distribution of vaccines that lead to stronger mutant strains, the new crown epidemic is expected to be gradually controlled in 2022 and transformed into a local epidemic that coexists with humans like other infectious diseases.
After all, whether the epidemic can be controlled must depend on the determination of human beings.
The World Health Organization pointed out that it is possible to control the COVID-19 epidemic. The key is that human beings can make the necessary and difficult choices.
The head of WHO's COVID-19 technology, Kelkhoff, said: "The trajectory of this pandemic is in our hands... Can we reach a state of control of transmission by 2022? We could have done it, but we still couldn't. "
Experts have repeatedly emphasized that if the new crown epidemic is allowed to spread indiscriminately in certain places, it will greatly increase the possibility of new and more dangerous variants, putting the world in danger.
In addition, according to Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao, more than 7.5 billion doses have been vaccinated globally since the first batch of vaccines came out a year ago.
By June 2022, the world is expected to produce about 24 billion doses of vaccine.
However, poorer countries are extremely short of vaccines, and where vaccines are available, some people resist vaccination, allowing more infectious variants such as delta to trigger waves of infections everywhere.
The African Vaccine Procurement Trust Agency (AVAT), the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and COVAX also stated in a joint statement on November 29 that the quality of donated vaccines needs to be strengthened.
Von Danai, a member of the French Government's Epidemic Crisis Scientific Advisory Panel, agreed with this.
He said: "It is not just about the number of doses to get the world vaccinated. We must support those fragile medical systems and work hard to persuade people to get vaccinated."