WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned during a press conference that the circulation of both the Omicron and Delta variants 'is leading to a tsunami of cases' and putting 'immense pressure' on health care workers.
Wednesday that the circulation of both the Omicron and Delta variants "is leading to a tsunami of cases."Surging caseloads will continue to put "immense pressure on exhausted health workers and health systems on the brink of collapse," Tedros said.
The WHO director reiterated his call for vaccines to be distributed more equitably around the world and warned that booster shots in wealthy nations could disadvantage poorer ones,Tedros urged states to make a “new year’s resolution” to vaccinate 70% of their populations by July 2022, after nearly 100 member states failed to reach the
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