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09.02.2022 / 18:11

Can you get long COVID after an infection with omicron? Here's what you need to know

A healthcare worker conducts a swab test at a COVID-19 testing site in Cruz Bay, Saint John, Virgin Islands, U.S. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Can you get long COVID after an infection with omicron?It’s too early to know for sure, but many doctors believe it’s possible to have long-term effects from the omicron variant of the virus.Long COVID is usually diagnosed many weeks after a bout with COVID-19.

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What are potential future scenarios of Covid-19 spread? WHO answers

next variant of concern will most likely be more transmissible as compared to Omicron because it will have to overtake the strains that are currently circulating, said Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead of the World Health Organisation (WHO), on Sunday.

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If Omicron is less severe, why are Covid deaths rising?

Omicron more transmissible than Delta

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COVID-19: WHO urges caution after Denmark the latest country to drop all restrictions

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it was urging caution after Denmark became the latest country to drop all of its COVID-19 restrictions that aimed at helping to reduce the spread of infections.

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WHO warns of rising COVID-19 deaths

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) today said the group is tracking a worrying rise in deaths in most of the world's regions, urging countries not to give up in the battle against the more transmissible Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant.

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WHO warns of rising COVID deaths

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WHO top official rings alarm: 'Concerned about increase in COVID deaths'

World Health Organisation officials on Tuesday said that the increase in the number of COVID-related fatalities is quite concerning. This should not be happening when we have public health tools that can reduce the spread & tools (diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines) that can save lives now, said Maria Van Kerkhove, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist; COVID-19 Technical Lead at WHO.

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When does WHO declare public health emergency? Scientist explains 2 years after Covid alert sounded

World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global public health emergency over the outbreak of coronavirus, an official from the UN health agency has explained when does an alert like such is sounded and what countries should do after.

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Next COVID variant will be more contagious than Omicron, WHO warns

Will the next variant be more virulent?

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COVID surges in many regions fuel steady global rise

Global COVID-19 activity jumped 20% last week compared with the week before, amid surges across multiple regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly update on the pandemic.

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COVID-19: WHO looking into animal susceptibility to virus as Hong Kong culls small infected animals

World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove said on Tuesday that the WHO has been working with global experts and partners to look at animal susceptibility to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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WHO expert addresses common questions on Omicron

The World Health Organisation has published an update on the Omicron variant, with Covid-19 Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove addressing a number of common questions about the virus in a short video.

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WHO technical lead says countries need ability to purchase COVID-19 vaccines

World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 technical lead Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove joined CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday where she said the best option for countries right now is the ability to purchase COVID-19 vaccines.

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Omicron variant: WHO expects more information on transmission ‘within days’

COVID-19 variant is more transmissible than other variants within days, according to a top World Health Organization official.Dr. Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, told a press conference Wednesday that she expects more information soon.“We expect to have more information on transmission within days, not necessarily weeks, but in days,” she said.

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Global COVID-19 total tops 250 million infections

Over the weekend, the global total topped 250 million cases as Delta (B1617.2) variant activity fuels fresh surges in Europe and keeps countries on other continents on an uncertain path heading into winter.

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'Our last chance' to find Covid origins, says WHO

DOZENS OF STUDIES NEEDED

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Decline in global COVID-19 cases, deaths continues

Continuing a trend that began in August, global COVID-19 cases and deaths declined again last week, with activity decreasing in most regions except Europe, where infection levels stayed the same, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest weekly snapshot of the pandemic.

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WHO fights COVID-19 with humanitarian assistance and vaccine equity push

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Global COVID-19 cases show substantial drop

For the first time in more than 2 months, weekly global COVID-19 cases dropped substantially, as cases decline in recent hot spots, including India and Japan, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest update.

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Delta variant of Covid surging in areas with low vaccination coverage, WHO warns

Delta variant in areas where the vaccination coverage is low, reported Reuters, quoting World Health Organization (WHO) officials.

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Cases in Americas, Asia drive latest COVID-19 rise

With another steady increase in cases last week, the world is now adding more than 500,000 million cases a day, with the more transmissible Delta (B1617.2) SARS-CoV-2 variant now in 132 of the world's 197 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest weekly update on the pandemic.

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Americas and Asia cases drive latest weekly COVID rise

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Global COVID deaths rise sharply, led by surging Delta

The world's pace of deaths from COVID-19 rose steeply last week, as countries in multiple parts of the world battled surges and people in many nations over the weekend protested vaccination and other measures to curb virus activity.

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WHO expert warns over early rush to end restrictions

The head of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme has warned countries about lifting Covid-19 restrictions too quickly.

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'WHO will make Covid sound like...': Anand Mahindra quips at Greek names for variants

Anand Mahindra has now come forward with his amusing stance on World Health Organization announcing a new nomenclature system for coronavirus variants.The WHO recently said that it will now refer to the most worrisome variants -- known as “variants of concern" -- by letters in the Greek alphabet to strike a fair and more comprehensible balance.In line with this, the B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 variants of the Covid-19, first identified in India, have been named as 'Kappa' and 'Delta' respectively."Today, @WHO announces new, easy-to-say labels for #SARSCoV2 Variants of Concern (VOCs) & Interest (VOIs).

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Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode

NEW DELHI – A potentially worrisome variant of the coronavirus detected in India may spread more easily. But the country is behind in doing the kind of testing needed to track it and understand it better.

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WHO says virus strain in India a 'variant of concern'

The World Health Organziation said that the coronavirus variant first identified in India last year was being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily.

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COVID-19 variant first seen in India designated as global concern, WHO says

World Health Organization said on Monday that the B.1.617 variant first identified in India was being classified as a variant of global concern.“We classify it as a variant of concern at a global level,” Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO technical lead on COVID-19, told a briefing.

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India has a double mutant coronavirus variant. Should we worry?

As India’s daily tally of Covid-19 infections surge by a record 200,000-plus cases for three consecutive days, public health experts worry that a new — possibly more virulent — coronavirus variant could be racing through the crowded nation of more than 1.3 billion people.The new variant, which has a so-called double mutation, is thought to be fueling India’s deadlier new wave of infections that has made it the world’s second worst-hit country, surpassing Brazil, and has already begun to overwhelm its hospitals and crematoriums.

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Is double mutant coronavirus causing the record surge in infections in India?

coronavirus variant could be racing through the crowded nation of more than 1.3 billion people.The new variant, which has a so-called double mutation, is thought to be fueling India’s deadlier new wave of infections that has made it the world’s second worst-hit country, surpassing Brazil, and has already begun to overwhelm its hospitals and crematoriums. The Asian nation has reported more than 14 million Covid cases so far and more than 174,300 fatalities.“This is a variant of interest we are following," Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead officer on Covid, told reporters Friday.

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COVID pandemic is growing ‘exponentially,’ WHO says

ORLANDO, Fla. – The World Health Organization said Monday that the global coronavirus pandemic is still “growing exponentially,” with more than 4.4 million new COVID-19 cases reported last week.

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COVID cases surge in South American, European hot spots

A number of global COVID-19 hot spots in South America and Europe reported new daily records, including Brazil, Chile, Turkey, and Bulgaria.

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'Worrying sign': Global Covid-19 deaths rise again after 6 weeks, says WHO

World Health Organisation expert on the coronavirus pandemic. The technical lead on Covid-19 at the UN health agency, Maria Van Kerkhove, said on Monday that in a "worrying sign", the growth followed a fifth straight of confirmed cases across the globe.

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Coronavirus: WHO’s COVID-19 technical lead explains how coronavirus variants appear

The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, explained how variants of the novel coronavirus appear, and how to tackle the problem amid the COVID-19 pandemic, during her appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

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World may never find coronavirus 'patient zero', says WHO as it probes Covid origin

patient zero"."We may never find who the patient zero was," said Maria Van Kerkhove, World Health Organization's technical lead on the infection.A WHO-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 is to hold virtual meetings with its Chinese hosts in Wuhan, where the pandemic first emerged more than a year ago.WHO on combating new variants of Covid-19The WHO's emergency committee called Friday for globally-ramped up coronavirus sequencing studies in order to combat troubling new variants stalking the globe.The meeting was dragged forward by two weeks for urgent talks on the emerging, seemingly more contagious strains of the virus, as the death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic topped two million, according to an AFP count.The emergency

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Coronavirus: WHO says no evidence that new strain of virus in South Africa is more transmissible

World Health Organization technical lead for COVID-19 Maria Van Kerkhove on Tuesday discussed a new strain of the virus found in South Africa and dubbed the 501Y.V2 variant, saying that there’s no evidence at this point that the new strain has an increased transmissibility when compared to the strain found in the United Kingdom.

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EXPLAINER: Scientists trying to understand new virus variant

posted a report of it on a website scientists use to quickly share developments, but it has not been formally reviewed or published in a journal.Q: DOES IT MAKE PEOPLE SICKER OR MORE LIKELY TO DIE?A: “There’s no indication that either of those is true, but clearly those are two issues we’ve got to watch,” Landrigan said.

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Coronavirus: WHO comments on travel restrictions amid new virus variant

World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove commented Monday on the travel restrictions implemented in multiple areas after a new COVID-19 variant was identified in the U.K.

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Canada adds 6,381 new coronavirus cases as country watches for new strain

Ontario to enter ‘provincewide shutdown’ on Boxing Day The new cases come as the federal government began halting all incoming flights from the United Kingdom for 72 hours in a bid to quell the spread of a potentially more transmissible variant of the virus, which has been running rampant in Britain.A statement from Health Canada Sunday evening said the strain has not yet been identified in the country, but added that work continues to determine whether it is present.However, while the new variant may be more transmissible, the World Health Organization said vaccines which were recently approved to combat the virus should still be effective.Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead for COVID-19, also said the mutated variant may be

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Coronavirus: WHO says new virus strain from U.K. being studied

World Health Organization COVID-19 technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove said Monday that the new strain of the novel coronavirus from the United Kingdom, which was first reported to the WHO on Dec. 14, said labs are looking for three different things with this version of the virus: transmission, severity of illness and the body’s antibody response following infection.

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‘Good news’: Coronavirus vaccine will still protect against new U.K. variant, WHO says

coronavirus vaccine should still work against the new variant of the virus spreading quickly in the United Kingdom. That’s “good news,” the World Health Organization said on Monday.Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO technical lead for COVID-19, said the mutated variant may be more transmissible, but there is no evidence it would increase the “severity associated with this disease.”“The U.K.

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Coronavirus: Virus variants in U.K., South Africa contain same mutation in different variant, WHO says

Explaining the difference between the coronavirus variants in the United Kingdom and the in South Africa, World Health Organization COVID-19 technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove said Monday the viruses have the same mutation but in a different variant.

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WHO expects more detail on new coronavirus strain in coming days, weeks

GENEVA/ZURICH : The World Health Organization said on Monday it expects to get more detail soon on the potential impact of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, as a slew of countries closed their borders to Britain over fears about its spread.There is no evidence the mutated variant of the virus increases the severity of the disease, although it is more transmissible, officials said, citing UK analysis.Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO technical lead for COVID-19, said scientists are looking at the body's antibody response to the virus and she expects results in the coming days and weeks.Mike Ryan, WHO's top emergency expert, said countries were acting out of a "precautionary principle" in reaction to the variant and said that was "prudent".

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Almost all COVID-19 patients develop antibodies: WHO

COVID-19 patients develop antibodies no matter the course of the disease, WHO's Maria Van Kerkhove said on Friday."What we understand is 90 to 100 per cent of people who are infected with the virus do develop an antibody response, whether you have mild infection or asymptomatic infection all the way to severe infection.

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Avoiding festive family gatherings 'safest bet' - WHO

The World Health Organization has said avoiding family gatherings would be "the safest bet" over Christmas, insisting there is no zero-risk option for traditional holiday merry-making during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Coronavirus: WHO official responds to report, says 65 cases at HQ date back to beginning of pandemic

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the COVID-19 technical lead for the World Health Organization, on Monday responded to a report of a cluster of cases at WHO headquarters (HQ) saying there have been 65 cases associated with HQ staff, but not all have been on premises.

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How contagious are kids with COVID-19? Short answer: we don't know

Politically charged question "Living with children 0-11 years old was not associated with increased risks of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 related hospital or ICU admission," research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Oxford, based on data from more than nine million adults, concluded.For children aged 12 to 18, there was a risk, but it remained small, the study found.Children "can transmit it to others," said Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist at the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Program.

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Coronavirus: WHO warns of COVID-19 momentum as winter, influenza season looms in north

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that COVID-19 is spreading at a “worrying” pace in some parts of the northern hemisphere, just months before the winter influenza season begins.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0