“Over the past six weeks, the weekly number of reported cases of COVID-19 in the world has almost doubled,” TASS reports his words at a briefing.
The head of WHO noted the need to pay attention to gaps in the prevention of COVID-19, including monitoring the situation with the spread of the virus, immunizing the population, and supplying medicines.
Earlier, Ghebreyesus called on all countries of the world to return the mask regime in connection with the situation with COVID-19.
Virologist Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University Alexei Agranovsky commented on reports of a new subspecies of the omicron coronavirus strain.