<span style="color: #222222;">World Health Organization (WHO) Chief has warned that it is dangerous to assume the Omicron variant of COVID-19 will be the last one to emerge and that the world is in the end game of the pandemic. He said, conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge.<br />''<br />''During the WHO executive board meeting, the UN health agency's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, however said that, if tools such as testing and vaccines are used in a comprehensive manner, it would be possible for the world to exit the acute phase of the pandemic, this year.<br />''<br />''Mr. Tedros laid out an array of achievements and concerns in global health over issues like reducing tobacco use, fighting resistance to anti-microbial treatments, and risks of climate change on human health.<br />''<br />''But he said ending the acute phase of the pandemic must remain their collective priority. Mr.Tedros urged for discipline and unity in combatting the coronavirus.</span><br />
News On AIR | January 25, 2022 11:31 AM
WHO chief warns against talk of 'endgame' in pandemic