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Is Omicron endgame of Covid? WHO chief warns of future variants

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head of the World Health Organization urged countries to work together to bring the acute phase of the pandemic to an end, saying that they now have all the tools available to do so.

Speaking at the opening of Executive Board meeting, Tedros said since Omicron was first identified a little over nine weeks ago, more than 80 million cases had been reported to the U.N.

agency, more than were reported in the whole of 2020. "Conditions are ideal for more variants to emerge," he added. In the past two months the world has detected several variants of the novel coronavirus.

The second wave of coronavirus swept the world in 2021, the Delta variant that resulted in loss of taste and smell and severe shortness of breath resulted in the death of many.

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