The organization notes that the death rate from the coronavirus may increase.

Currently, 90% of the world’s population has some immunity against the coronavirus after overcoming the virus or being vaccinated against it. But, according to the estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO), there is a threat of the appearance of a new dangerous mutation.

“We are much closer to saying that the emergency phase of the pandemic is over, but we are not there yet,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, The Guardian writes.

According to him, gaps in the tracking of infected people, testing, sequencing of the virus genome and vaccination still create the conditions for the emergence of a new strain of COVID-19 that can cause significant mortality.

Coronavirus in the world: what is known

It should be noted that the coronavirus is gaining strength: the historical COVID record has been broken in China. Thus, on November 23, 2022, China reported 31,656 new cases of infection with COVID-19, of which 4,10 were symptomatic, and 27,646 were asymptomatic.

Residents of Wuhan were urged to limit their movement from home to work, while parks and museums were closed in Beijing. And in Shanghai, people who come to this city from other regions are required to take a test for coronavirus and spend three days in isolation.