THE CHEKING PROCESS – The WHO, through the voice of its Director General, has warned of a risk of saturation of hospitals faced with the double threat of the Delta and Omicron variants.
THE QUESTION. Already confronted for several weeks with a fifth wave of contamination caused by the Delta variant, several countries must now face the arrival of Omicron. Much more contagious, this new strain causes a surge in the incidence and reproduction rate. France and Great Britain now register nearly 200,000 cases per day. A completely new figure.
This wave, which is currently visible in a limited number of countries, worries the World Health Organization (WHO). During a press conference, its managing director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described Delta and Omicron as “twin threats that lead to a record number of contaminations and consequently to a peak in hospitalizations and deaths“. He particularly pointed to the contagiousness of the second, which, combined with the first, “leads to a tsunami of cases“. Result : “this is and will put enormous pressure on exhausted caregivers and the systems of…
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