UN agency urges acceleration of vaccination of high-priority groups to tackle spread of variant
The threat posed by the “highly mutated” Omicron variant shows what a “perilous and precarious” situation the world is in, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, as he warned that the pandemic would not end until every country has access to vaccines.
In his first substantial comments since the emergence of the new variant last week, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it illustrated how “hard-won gains could vanish in an instant”.
