The World Health Organization’s emergency committee on Covid-19 on Thursday warned that the pandemic was not over and that it continued to evolve with four variants of concern.
“The committee recognised the strong likelihood for the emergence and global spread of new and possibly more dangerous variants of concern that may be even more challenging to control,” the panel said in a statement.
The committee said that the pandemic was still an “extraordinary event” that continues to hurt public health, and needs a coordinated international response. The statement also said that the committee emphasised on the risk of emergency of new zoonotic diseases during the pandemic. Zoonotic diseases are caused by germs that spread between animals and people, according to United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Animals usually spread it to people and cause illness.
The statement came amid a surge in Delta variant cases around the world. Earlier in the day,…