WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a warning about the decline in vaccination coverage.
Geneva:
Covid-19 still kills around 1,700 people a week around the world, the World Health Organization reported on Thursday, as it urged at-risk populations to maintain vaccination against the disease.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a warning about the decline in vaccination coverage.
Despite the continued death count, “data shows that vaccination coverage has declined among health professionals and people over 60, who are two of the highest risk groups,” said the head of the UN health agency in a Press conference.
“The WHO recommends that people in the highest risk groups receive a Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of the last dose.”
More than seven million Covid deaths have been reported to the WHO, although the true pandemic toll is believed to be much higher.
Covid-19 has also destroyed economies and paralyzed healthcare systems.
Tedros declared the end of Covid-19 an international public health emergency in May 2023, more than three years after the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.
The WHO urged governments to maintain surveillance and sequencing of the virus and ensure access to affordable and reliable tests, treatments and vaccines.
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