A senior official of the World Health Organization announced this Friday that “the time has come for a realistic review of the corona epidemic after registering one million deaths from this disease this year.”
“This is a ‘heartbreaking’ result, as tests, treatments, vaccines and public health measures are all available to control the virus,” said Maria van Kerkhoef, head of the WHO’s technical coronavirus team.
In a direct conversation through the social media channels of the World Health Organization, he added: “Since we are in the third year of the epidemic (…), it is even sadder that we have tools at our disposal that can actually prevent these deaths.” do “Many of us have become desensitized to numbers,” he noted.
“We need a realistic review. We really need to assess where we are now. We shouldn’t be in a situation where 14,000 to 15,000 people are dying every week,” he continued. “This pandemic is not over yet, but it can be ended while people go about their daily lives,” Maria van Kerkhoff emphasized.
“We just need to think more about it to be a little more careful,” he said. He added: “Many people talk about living with Corona, but we have to live with it responsibly.”
And he warned: “One million deaths this year is not coexistence with Corona, and having 15,000 deaths per week is not considered a responsible coexistence with Corona.”
According to the latest statistics from the World Health Organization, since the first infection appeared in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, the corona virus has killed 6.45 million people worldwide.
Last week, more than 5.3 million new infections were reported to the United Nations.
“These are very large numbers, and this is an underestimation, given that home tests do not play a role in the data,” said Maria van Kerkhoff. Expressing regret that this virus does not leave us, he added: “We are witnessing the severe spread of this virus all over the world.
Source: Lebanon Debate
