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Responding to the rise in cases of monkeypox throughout Europe over the past two weeks, WHO outlined the steps required to "rapidly investigate and control this fast-evolving situation.
It is now in news after the UK health authorities confirmed a case of monkeypox in a person with a recent travel history to Nigeria where he is believed to have caught it. The patient is currently being treated in an isolation unit at St Thomas hospital in London.
It is possible that both the WHO and the Indian government are looking at the same virus and seeing different things.
New estimates from the WHO show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic was approximately 14.9 million.
Guterres also called for governments and pharma companies to work together to deliver vaccines to every person, everywhere.
The WHO said the vaccine is effective and no safety concerns exist, but the suspension of production for export will result in the interruption of Covaxin supply.
Understanding the origins of Omicron might help scientists to understand the risk of new variants emerging, and suggest steps to minimize it.
The overall threat posed by Omicron largely depends on three key questions - its transmissibility; how well the vaccines and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection protect against it, and how virulent the variant is as compared to other variants.
Currently, Covishield and other COVID-19 vaccines are approved for people above the age of 18.