Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned of the possibility of the emergence of a new Coronavirus strain (known also as COVIDID-19).
He stressed the possible new strain may be more dangerous than the " Delta" strain that sweeps through the globe now and causes about 90% of infections worldwide.
Dr. Ghebreyesus indicated during a speech in the 138th edition of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that the emergence of a news strain of COVID-19 may lead to spreading out of infractions in all parts of the world.
He added that as the Coronavirus invades the planet, new very dangerous variants of the death may be more serious than the "Delta" which causes many harms to populations of dozens of countries in the present time.
Dr. Ghebreyesus warns that many strains of the COVID-19 may lead to appear a new variant that could trespass all anti-Corona vaccines and then return the world to the starting point.
He depicted the current situation as the world witnesses unprecedented crisis so it needs unprecedented decisions to handle it.
The Director-General of the WHO announced that the organization's main target is vaccinating 70% of the world's population in all countries by September 2022.
He went to say that the pandemic could be checked by providing about eleven billion doses of the anti-Corona vaccines.
It is worth noting that the Emergency Committee at the WHO has declared the danger of the emergence of new strains that may be more serious than the ones that spread now in the world.
The committee listed four variants of the COVID-19.
Those strains are "Alfa" that detected for the first in Britain, "Beta" that detected in South Africa," Gama", that detected in Brazil, and "Delta" that was detected for the first time in India.
The last strain spreads faster than the others across the planet.
The committee indicated that the deadly virus is continuing mutating as the "Delta plus" strain has emerged recently.
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