You can not allow the world to “close”, again to stop international trips and economic cooperation because of the Omicron strain of Coronavirus, the UN Secretary General Antoniou Guterryan said. He called on to strengthen control measures for the dissemination of the new COVID-19 version instead of world insulation, reports Reuters.
“I urge the governments of all countries to consider additional testing of traveling, along with other possible and effective measures to avoid the risks of infection and at the same time allow you to maintain the possibility of travel and economic cooperation,” said the UN head.
Guterry also noted that he was deeply concerned about the international isolation of South African countries, which were revealed in a timely manner and told about the Omicron strain. “Peoples of Africa can not be blamed for the fact that the availability of vaccines there is a depressingly low level, and cannot be punished for finding new information and its fast transfer to the whole world,” concluded the Secretary General.
Earlier, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros, Adan Gebresus, criticized the existing system of fighting a pandemic, as it deprives the country of incentives to warn other states about threats. “South Africa and Botswana must be delimited, and not punished, for finding and reporting about the new strain,” he believes. The head of WHO stressed that no country of the world could defeat the coronavirus pandemic, focusing on vaccination exclusively its citizens. The head of WHO called on States to deal with unequal access to vaccines.