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WHO Says It's Possible to End Covid Pandemic in 2022
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December 15, 2021
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1:08Now PlayingThe Technical Lead for the World Health Organization's Emergencies Programme on Wednesday said she is "incredibly hopeful" that 2202 is "the year we end the COVID-19 pandemic".
Dr Maria Van Kerkhove was taking questions from the general public on COVID-19 and the omicron variant, along with Dr Mike Ryan, the Executive Director of the WHO Emergencies Programme.
On the omicron variant, Kerkhove said it is "spreading fast and it does have a growth advantage over delta in some countries", but added that it is "still early days".
The World Health Organization says 77 countries have reported cases of omicron, but that the variant is probably in most countries by now, just not yet detected.
The WHO said data is still coming in and much remains unknown about the new variant.
According to an analysis on Tuesday of data from South Africa, where omicron is driving a surge in infections, the variant seems to be more easily spread from person to person and better at evading vaccines, but also milder.
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