The UN health agency WHO confirmed on Friday that coronavirus numbers are spiking globally and that we “should expect more cases” in the coming winter months in the northern hemisphere.
Latest data from the World Health Organization covering the four weeks to 17 December indicated a 52 per cent increase in infections compared with the previous 28-days.
That amounts to 850,000 new COVID-19 cases reported, but the true figure is likely much higher, according to WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier:
“You know that all throughout the world and you’ve seen it in many of your own countries, the reporting has dropped, the surveillance centers have dropped, the vaccination centers have dropped, have been dismantled as well or shut down”, he told reporters in Geneva.
“This, of course, leads to an incomplete picture and we should expect unfortunately more cases than we have officially reported.”
Most infections have been caused by a new COVID strain called JN.1 which is now under close scrutiny by the UN health agency as a “variant of interest”.
JN.1 was reportedly first detected in the United States before spreading across dozens of countries.
It evolved from the Omicron variant which was linked to a peak in COVID infections in 2022.
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But the true figures is most likely to be higher… That’s you all deadly selling point for scaring the shit out of people in a manipulate manner. Tell us which big pharma is broke or behind the drive, JnJ, Merdina, bill gates, who?
Yup it’s on the rise my mother got it a died and she survived the pandemic and lockdown. All hospitals in NYC are recommending you to now mask up because it’s getting out of control the ball & chain goes to weekly briefing about it and has warned me. Of course you got those who will say this and that leave them there the new virus is more contagious if your structure is not well forget about it. Main stream media is downplaying it of course this is by design because of the economic recovery that’s been made, but let’s see which one will win. The update shot I will take it I took everything else I am I still here nothing hasn’t fallen off yet
@ Honorable…..Gasa la ba chew zort.