The Chinese communist virus (COVID-19) continues to be active worldwide. The World Health Organization issued a stark warning Friday (14) that this year’s outbreak will be “even more deadly” than last year’s.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “The second year of a pandemic is more deadly than the first, and we are embarking on such a trajectory.”
The pandemic has killed at least 3,346,813 people worldwide since the CCP virus first appeared in late 2019, according to an AFP tally of official data.
India is now the “new hotbed” of the 2021 pandemic. As of Friday, India has had 3 consecutive days of 4,000 daily deaths, with about as many new cases of the CDC virus each day as the rest of the world combined. According to official figures, the total number of infected people in India exceeds 24 million, with more than 260,000 deaths.
A variant of B.1.617 is thought to be behind the latest wave of outbreaks in India. The variant was first discovered in India and has now spread to dozens of countries around the world. On Monday, the WHO declared it a variant of “global concern”.
Although the WHO has identified B.1.617 as a variant, further analysis has revealed that it can be divided into three different sub-lineages, B.1.617.1, B.1.617.2 and B.1.617.3, with the three different sub-strains carrying slightly different genetic variants. B.1.617.2 was declared a variant of concern in the UK last week, where it is spreading rapidly.
WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove notes that any strain of the CCA virus (SARS-CoV-2) is infectious, and in that sense, everything is of concern.
The spread of a variant of concern across the planet is a concern. The virus will find ways to remain difficult to detect and may evade vaccines. Due to the explosive spread, SARS-CoV-2 has plenty of opportunities to morph through random mutations.
As scientists say, some mutations affect the spike protein on the surface of the CCP virus, making it easier to bind to cells. This makes it easier for the CCP virus to “adapt”.
WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan warned that vaccination alone does not guarantee that people will not be infected again or that they will not infect others. Even those who have been vaccinated should continue to wear masks in areas where the virus is spreading, the WHO warned Friday.
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