“Strong Likelihood” Of More Dangerous COVID-19 Variants: WHO Experts Warn

New COVID-19 variants will make it harder for pandemic to be halted, WHO committee said.

Geneva:

The World Health Organization’s emergency committee warned Thursday that new concerning variants of Covid-19 were expected to spread around the world, making it even harder to halt the pandemic.

“The pandemic is nowhere near finished,” the committee said in a statement, highlighting “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”.

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