{"id":242282,"date":"2022-02-03T08:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=242282"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:52:37","slug":"many-countries-yet-to-see-peak-in-omicron-wave-who-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/many-countries-yet-to-see-peak-in-omicron-wave-who-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Many countries yet to see peak in Omicron wave, WHO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>caution<br \/>\n washington DC<br \/>\nMany countries have not reached their peak in cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus and measures imposed to curb its spread should be eased slowly, the World Health Organization\u2019s technical lead on Covid-19 said on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are urging caution because many countries have not gone through the peak of Omicron yet. Many countries have low levels of vaccination coverage with very vulnerable individuals within their populations,\u201d Maria Van Kerkhove told an online briefing.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd so now is not the time to lift everything all at once. We have always urged, always (be) very cautious, in applying interventions as well as lifting those interventions in a steady and in a slow way, piece by piece. Because this virus is quite dynamic,\u201d she added.<br \/>\nWHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. agency was concerned about a narrative taking hold in some countries that \u201cbecause of vaccines, and because of Omicron\u2019s high transmissibility and lower severity, preventing transmission is no longer possible, and no longer necessary. \u201cNothing could be further from the truth,\u201d Tedros told the briefing. \u201cMore transmission means more deaths. 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