The World Health Organization does not recommend using tests for making a decision on vaccination, the official representative of WHO in Russia Melit Vuynovich said. It is reported by RBC.
“Immunity evaluation is a challenging task and requires various scientific levels and presence of complex laboratories. The presence of certain antibodies in” conventional tests “usually does not indicate whether they are neutralizing antibodies, that is, can they stop the virus, so WHO is not Recommends this type of tests, “said the representative of WHO.
She also added that “studies of serological immunity can be carried out at the population level and are intended for scientific purposes, and not for decision-making in real time during the pandemic period.” “In general, WHO recommends vaccination as the best way to achieve both individual and collective immunity,” Vuynovich emphasized.
Recall, previously, WHO representatives warned that within a few weeks the world could overlook the global wave of the incidence of COVID-19. Its reason will be the new version of Delta, which has already been found in 92 countries. Representatives of WHO consider this strain in the most contagious of all variants of coronavirus infection.