The World Health Organization WHO released the “Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan for Ending the Global COVID-19 Emergency in 2022”, which is the third WHO’s COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and coping plans.
Director-General Tedros Sai noted, “COVID-19 is likely to continue to evolve, but the severity of the disease it causes will decrease over time as immunity increases due to vaccination and infection.”
However, beyond the optimistic signal, the epidemic Still boil people! WHO warns: New variants of the new crown may appear, pulling humans back to 0 immunity! And the new variant may be able to avoid the current vaccine!
Once a new variant of the new coronavirus appears
Prior experience may no longer apply!
The Sun reported that in the third year of the epidemic, the new crown has become more mild in infecting humans.
Omicron became the mainstream strain, and most infected people had mild symptoms, especially those who had been vaccinated. Hospitalizations have decreased, and people usually recover on their own after isolating at home.
However, the World Health Organization warns that this state of affairs is not fixed and the worst-case scenario is the emergence of an entirely new coronavirus.
The WHO reminds that the government and scientists should prepare for the new coronavirus to mutate in animals and return to humans!
“This situation will likely be a reset and the entire global population will be susceptible”!
In other words, after 3 years of fighting the epidemic, the immunity that humans have finally accumulated may be lost because of a new virus that has been mutated in animals and returned to humans. We are currently fighting against the new coronavirus. The theory and experience of , may no longer apply by then!
At that point, experts would start over with the new variant. Humans are facing a more unpredictable new coronavirus, and the immunity we have finally built up will fail in front of the new virus.
World Wei pointed out that this situation is not explicitly written in the response to the just-released plan, but it should be considered a threat and should be prepared!
COVID-19 detected in 29 animals
and animal-to-human transmission has occurred
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It is reported that so far,people have The new coronavirus has been found in a variety of animals, including hamsters, bears, tigers and gorillas.
Just earlier, Canada also reported The world’s first case of “animal-to-human transmission”, a deer suspected to have transmitted a mutated new coronavirus to a hunter.
Now, what is in front of people, when will the new crown pandemic end, and what will affect the future of the virus?
Canadian scientists also expressed their views and concerns:
“We are in an uncertain situation,” noted Edmonton health expert Christopher McCabe.
Anti-epidemic for 2 years , the situation today is surprisingly similar to the spring of 2 years ago: The future is once again shrouded in the unknown, even though we already have a vaccine and a drug. The new crown is not a new virus, but the future has never seemed so difficult to read.
Experts point out that BA.2 is likely to make another wave in Canada, but another concern is that There may be a new variant that eschews current vaccines entirely.
Viruses continue to recombine, exchanging genes from different lineages to gain advantages. One case of recombination at present is Deltacron. Fortunately, Deltacron does not currently pose a threat to evade vaccines.
“ What we’re more concerned about is what happens when a mutation enters an animal host that is infected with other SARS-CoV-2 viruses.” Dr. Langlois said that’s why monitoring mutations in animal populations Communication will remain the top priority in the coming months.
leave “animals” The worst-case scenario of “passing from person to person” and producing a new variant that evades immunity is not optimistic at present.
< span>A complete unblocking is equivalent to opening the door to new variants
The World Health Organization pointed out in a recent report that in the past week, about 10 million new cases were diagnosed worldwide, and more than 45,000 were diagnosed. People die! COVID-19 deaths increased 40% from the previous week!
Even so, the United Kingdom and other European countries, the United States, Canada, and even the outbreak of 44 days South Korea, with 9 million confirmed cases, is still on the road to unblocking.
Starting Friday, vaccinated travelers will not need a negative nucleic acid test to enter Canada.
Fully Vaccination, it is also possible to be diagnosed, positive, and carry the virus. This is something everyone knows under the Omicron epidemic. Once this measure is implemented in Canada, it is basically considered to give up epidemic prevention.
At the same time, BC Premier Horgan held a press conference – officially announcing that he is ready to completely lift the lockdown and lift the last restriction!
Although At present, the number of new infections, deaths and hospitalizations in BC is rising, there are obvious signs of the arrival of the sixth wave of the epidemic in Canada, but the general trend of unblocking does not seem to have changed——
After taking off the masks, BC will cancel the only current epidemic prevention measure on time next Friday, April 8, and withdraw the “last line of defense”.
On the other side, health experts continue to worry: “< span>We’re opening the door to new variants!”
Infectious disease expert Colin Furness said, “When the highly contagious BA.2 clade emerged, we lifted the restrictions, which was equivalent to giving new The mutated strain opens the door, then disarms all defenses.”
“This is an inappropriate time to lift Covid-19 restrictions,” he said.
” mild symptoms Can still cause huge internal damage to your body!” Furness said, and reminds residents to remain “highly vigilant” and continue to wear masks, preferably fitting “It’s a way to keep you safe.”
Chinese people cannot lie flat
will fight the virus to the end
Shanghai has been in dire straits since March. On the 8th, Shanghai had over 130,000 cases of positive infections in this round of the epidemic, and it is difficult to clear it. It is conceivable that there is still a tough battle to be fought in Shanghai.
< span>The Chinese people cannot lie flat. If they ignore “prevention” and only “govern” like foreign countries, China’s medical system will face the danger of breakdown!
In the past three years, the epidemic has brought us too much pain and damage. No one can stay out of the war on the epidemic.
Dynamic Clearing is hard, but we must win this battle, and all we need is a short period of patience.
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This article is compiled from: Sanjia Fax, China News Network, etc.