The World Health Organization has warned that another variant of the coronavirus could emerge with “significant mortality”.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated on Friday that 90 percent The world’s population is currently benefiting Some immunity to Covid-19However, he warned A A new option.

WHO estimates that at least 90% of the world’s population now has some immunity to SARS-CoV-2. Previous infection or vaccination– said the Director General of the World Health Organization. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusrefers to the virus that causes the disease Covid-19.

“We are closer to saying that the emergency phase of the pandemic is over, But we are not there yet“, he added at the press conference.

Tedros warned of a reduction in transmission surveillance and that this opens the door to a new variant of the virus that can overcome Dominant Omicron.

“Flaws in surveillance, testing, sequencing and vaccination continue to create the perfect conditions for the emergence of a new worrisome variant that could lead to significant mortality“, he warned.

Tedros recalled that last weekend marked one year since the WHO announced a new, more contagious variant, Omicron.

Currently there are more 500 subvariant of Omicron And all are highly contagious. They also have mutations that allow them to escape immunity more easily, Tedros recalls.

Countries have notified WHO 6.6 million died by Covid-19. It was also almost 640 million infections.

The United Nations Health Agency claims that the data does not reflect the true number of victims.

More than 8,500 people died of Covid-19 last week, Tedros said. figure that “unacceptable” Three years after the pandemic, when “we already have so many tools to prevent infections and save lives.”

Demand for self-tests has increased in Argentina

Sales of Covid self-tests in Argentinian pharmacies have increased a 200 percentAnd the positivity of the cases that were reported by the people who carried them out went away from 9.3 to 42 percent During November, according to survey data of the Pharmaceutical Confederation of Argentina through the SIAFAR system.

Based on this report, it was clarified that on Tuesday, November 1, St. 387 devices And they were on Wednesday, November 30 1966 self-tests have been passed users, which temporarily coincides with the increase in registered coronavirus cases.

“When we had a wave of infections in June and July this year, sales started to pick up, but now grew very quickly In a week and we’ll see if it lasts. The moment when the most autotests were sold in the middle of the year was 5 thousand and now we are already surpassing it. 2000“- he counted Ricardo PesentiPresident of the Pharmaceutical Confederation of Argentina.

The increase became significant by November 22, when self-tests requested by people at pharmacies increased on average. 400 to 600 per day.

Despite this, “The Greatest Leap” It was recorded on Monday, November 28, when it exceeded 1,300 devices, and from that moment it continued to grow, until on November 30, up to 2,000 Covid self-tests were issued in pharmacies.