The new date is Dec 29, 2021.
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that new coronaviruses could become resistant to current vaccines or past infections.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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He said at the press conference that new variant could make current vaccines ineffectual at protecting people from the virus and that vaccines designed to tackle specific variant could be needed.
He said that he was worried that a wave of new cases caused by the spread of delta and omicron would put pressure on exhausted health workers and health systems on the verge of collapse.
According to the WHO, there were more than five million new virus cases in the week of December 20-26.
According to data compiled by the University, the U.S. shattered its seven-day average of new infections, which totaled around 282,000.
The WHO chief said that ending health inequity is crucial to ending the Pandemic.
92. WHO member countries missed the 40% target for getting their populations vaccine by the end of the year. The WHO has over 200 member countries. The WHO chief said that a combination of limited supply going to low-income countries and vaccines arriving close to the end of their shelf life caused nearly half of its member nations to miss the target.
The World Health Organization warned that vaccine booster shot programs could drag out the Pandemic by allowing the virus to continue to spread and cause problems in countries with low vaccination rates. Israel became the first country to approve a fourth dose of booster shots last week. The WHO chief called on governments to make a new year's resolution to support the agency's campaign to have 70% of the population in every country immunized by the beginning of July 2022.
The WHO chief is worried about the effects of omicron, delta cases.
The director of booster shot programs thinks they will likely prolong the pandemic.
The US has broken the previous record of new covid cases.
