The World Health Organization is seeking a global treaty between nations on responding to pandemics amid growing concerns over the new COVID-19 Omicron.
But with cases of Covid infections still in the millions, and doctors warning about new variants of the disease, is the pandemic really coming to an end?
The WHO chief was speaking at the start of a three-day special session of the World Health Assembly on Monday amid growing concerns over the new Omicron coronavirus variant.
The WHO system assigns such variants a Greek letter, to provide a non-stigmatising label that does not associate new variants with the location where they were first detected.
。 WHO 系统为此类体分配了一个希腊字母, 以提供一个不带污名的标签, 不会将体与其首次检测到的位置相关联。
The presumption is that further mutations are arising in a tumour all the time, and that eventually one of them makes a molecular change that nullifies the effect of the drug.
New variants or strains of COVID-19 are appearing around the world, as it mutates like other viruses do and one big question being asked is, will existing vaccines protect people against the new versions of coronavirus?
Just 15% of people in the U.S. ages 5 and older have gotten a bivalent booster, according to the CDC, which means many people are currently not as protected as they could be against the new variant.