Russia (bbabo.net), - The pandemic is not over yet. But in countries where vaccination rates are high, the micron wave passes very quickly. Hans Kluge, Director of the European Regional Office of the World Health Organization, said this, answering a question from Rossiyskaya Gazeta about forecasts for the end of the coronavirus pandemic at a press briefing.

He stressed that in countries with high vaccination rates, hospitals were overcrowded for only a short time. And in some states, only those who were not vaccinated got into hospitals. According to Kluge, it is necessary to achieve a high level of vaccination of the population in all countries, especially from risk groups, to strengthen the monitoring system and sequencing of the virus in order to quickly detect it if a new variant appears.

According to the Director of the WHO European Office, a new variant of the coronavirus may appear by the end of 2022. “There is a good chance that the virus will return at the end of the year because so many people have been infected. And this means new mutations of the virus. In winter, the virus will return, but we must be able to avoid the return of the pandemic,” Kluge stressed.

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