WHO warns of outbreak of new COVID-19 variants

*Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, has reiterated his plea for countries across the world to work together towards improving global supplies, access to vaccines, and other infrastructure that could slow the spread of the damaging Coronavirus pandemic

Alexander Davis | ConsumerConnect

As the global world intensifies the battle against the current ‘highly transmissible’ Omicron variant of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the Omicron variant will not be the last mutation of the virus to emerge, and those that come later could be a lot worse.

That’s the WHO blunt message, as the global health body warned that later variants could be resistant to existing vaccines.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO,told reporters that “as this pandemic drags on, it’s possible that new variants could evade our countermeasures and become fully resistant to current vaccines or past infection, necessitating vaccine adaptations.”

The Who Chief repeated his plea for countries to work together to improve global supplies, access to vaccines, and other infrastructure that could slow the spread of the virus.