World committee calls for better scientific collaboration to associate coronavirus mutations
The World Alert Committee on COVID-19 called for a global expansion on genomic sequencing and origin sharing, as well as better scientific collaboration to tackle critical unknowns about the new strains of the virus that cause COVID-19.
"We are in a race between the virus that tries to mutate in order to expand faster and faster, on the other hand humanity wants to stop it, scientific efforts are committed to being enormously fast and very intense", said the director Committee, Didier Houssin.
The group of experts met on Thursday at the request of the director of the World Organization on well-being, who expressed his concern about the mutations of SARS-CoV-2, the distribution of vaccines and the feasible requirement for certificates to international travelers.
“With nearly two million deaths and the appearance of new variants in many countries, the Emergency Committee emphasized the urgency for governments to do whatever is feasible to curb infections. s through tried and tested public immunity measures . Anything that can suppress the virus, and it will have less chance of mutating. We need to be more efficient than the virus, ”said Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus.
Regarding vaccines, the specialists stressed the need for equitable access form the COVAX action, for the transfer of technologies to intensify the capabilities of the global work.
Also, given that the impact of vaccines in reducing transmission is still unknown, and that the current availability of them is exaggeratedly limited, the Committee recommended that regions that do not require evidence of vaccination from travelers.
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