Conditions are ideal for more dangerous COVID-19 variants to emerge: WHO

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said conditions are ideal for "more transmissible, more dangerous COVID-19 variants to emerge". "But we can end the pandemic as a global health emergency this year," he added. The lower severity of the Omicron variant combined with high vaccine coverage in some countries is "driving a dangerous narrative that COVID-19 is over", he warned.