WHO’s Tedros says new COVID variant of concern could emerge

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization

WHO’s Tedros says new COVID variant of concern could emerge

Dec 2 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that gaps in surveillance, testing, sequencing and vaccination for COVID-19 continue to create “the perfect conditions for a new variant of concern to emerge”.

Reporting by Bhanvi Satija in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta

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