The I-World Health Organization (WHO) uxwayise namuhla ukuthi ukwahluka kwe-Ômicron kwe-coronavirus entsha kubeka engcupheni enkulu yokuqubuka okusha kokutheleleka.
WHO uxwayise amazwe angamalungu ayi-194 ukuthi ukuqubuka okusha okungenzeka kube nemiphumela emibi, kodwa waphawula ukuthi akukho kufa kwabantu okubikiwe kuze kube manje ngenxa yalolu hlobo olusha.
UMengameli waseMelika uJoe Biden uthe enkulumweni yakhe Indlu Emhlophe ukuthi okuhlukile okusha kuyimbangela yokukhathazeka, kodwa hhayi ukwethuka. Ngokusho kukaBiden, okuhlukile kuzofika emhlabathini waseMelika kungekudala noma kamuva; ngakho-ke, indlela engcono kakhulu okwamanje ukugoma.
NgoLwesine oluzayo, i Indlu Emhlophe, okuyisihlalo sikahulumeni wase-United States, izokhipha isu elisha lokubhekana nalolu bhubhane kanye nezinhlobonhlobo zalo ebusika. UJoe Biden uthe lolu hlelo ngeke lufake izenzo ezintsha ezivimbela ukuhamba kwabantu noma eziqukethe ama-agglomerations. "Uma abantu begonyiwe futhi begqoka imaski, asikho isidingo sokuvalwa okusha," kusho yena.
Umongameli ugcizelele, nokho, ukuthi kusazothatha amasonto ambalwa ukufakazela ukusebenza kahle kwemithi yokugoma etholakalayo ngokumelene ne-Ômicron.
Uchwepheshe wezempilo u-Anthony Fauci, ongumeluleki kahulumeni mayelana nezinyathelo zokulwa nalesi sifo, uthe izwe "kusobala ukuthi liqaphile." “Akunakugwenywa ukuthi izosabalala kabanzi,” esho engxoxweni nenethiwekhi yethelevishini ngoMgqibelo odlule.
Ngokusho kokuqagela okuvela WHO kanye nezinhlangano zezempilo zamazwe omhlaba, inani lamacala okuhluka kwe-Ômicron kulindeleke ukuthi lidlule ku-10,000 kuleli sonto, uma kuqhathaniswa namarekhodi angama-300 enziwe ngesonto eledlule, wazisa uSolwazi Salim Abdool Karim, uchwepheshe wezifo ezithathelwanayo osebenzela ukulwa nalolu bhubhane kuhulumeni waseningizimu. umAfrika.
UMengameli waseNingizimu Afrika, uCyril Ramaphosa, ugxeke ezinkundleni zokuxhumana akubiza ngokuthi “indlela engenabulungiswa nengahambisani nesayensi” maqondana nezwe. KuRamaphosa, ukuvalwa kwemingcele kanye nokuvinjelwa kwezindiza ezivela emazweni aseningizimu ne-Afrika kulimaza kakhulu umnotho oncike kwezokuvakasha, ngaphezu kwalokho “kuwuhlobo lwesijeziso samandla esayensi okuthola okuhlukile”.
Umongameli waseNingizimu Afrika unxuse iziphathimandla zamazwe omhlaba ukuthi zingabeki imingcele ezindizeni eziya esifundeni.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- According to projections from WHO and international health agencies, the number of cases of the Ômicron variant is expected to exceed 10,000 this week, compared to 300 records made last week, informed Professor Salim Abdool Karim, an infectious disease specialist who works to combat the pandemic in the southern government.
- For Ramaphosa, the closing of borders and the ban on flights from countries in southern Africa deeply hurts economies that depend on tourism, in addition to being “a kind of punishment for the scientific capacity to detect new variants”.
- WHO warned the 194 member nations that the possibility of a new outbreak could have severe consequences, but noted that no deaths have been reported so far as a result of the new strain.
