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The regional director for Europe World Health Organization (WHO)Hans Henri P. Klugehas recommended to european citizensbefore the wave of infections of coronavirus in chinakeep using masks indoors and public transport.
Kluge has stressed that the variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that circulate in the Asian giant are those that have already been seen in the Old Continent and other places. “We share the current view of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control that the ongoing surge in China is not expected to significantly affect the epidemiological situation of covid in the European region of the WHO at this time”, he has detailed. However, the European leader of the WHO has stressed that, although China has shared information on the sequencing of the virus, “detailed and periodic” information is needed, ” especially on epidemiology and local variants, in order to better determine the evolution of the situation.For this reason, he has assured that “it is not unreasonable” for countries to take safety measures to protect their populations, while waiting more information about the situation in China. However, he has asked that the initiatives adopted be “proportionate and non-discriminatory”.
Recent data from some countries are beginning to indicate the growing presence of new recombinant virus XBB.1.5 which has already been spreading “rapidly” by USA. In this sense, Kluge has reported that there are still few cases in Europe, although work is underway to assess their potential impact.
Measures
“After three long years of pandemicWith many countries dealing with overstretched health systems, shortages of essential medicines and an exhausted health workforce, we cannot afford more pressure on our health systems,” stressed the European head of the WHO. That said, he has asked the countries in Europe and Central Asia redouble their efforts to implement proven effective strategies and avoid being complacent.”This means urgently reinvesting and re-committing to improved virological and genomic surveillance, including wastewater surveillance, where feasible. This means investing in and safeguarding the health personnelwhose precarious situation in many places could undermine the effective delivery of health services,” he added.
Finally, Kluge has advised increasing the vaccine acceptance in the general population; administer additional doses of vaccines to priority groups; ventilate public and crowded spaces such as schools, bars and restaurants, open-air offices and public transport; and provide early and appropriate therapies to patients at risk of severe disease. “These measures can also reduce the impact of other respiratory infectionsIn particular, the flu, which our health services are struggling with at the moment. Science, surveillance, responsibility: all these must come together more and more, now that we enter the fourth year of the pandemic to guarantee a future for all,” he concluded.
