Coronavirus SARS-COV-2 continues to mutate, so you should expect the emergence of new specially dangerous options in addition to the four strains – “Alpha”, “Beta”, “Gamma” and “Delta”. This was announced on Friday at Briefing in Geneva General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adan Gebresus, TASS reports.
“WHO warned that the virus causing the disease COVID-19 was modified from the moment of the first messages about him and he continues to change. Thus, there were four options causing concern, and will appear even more until the virus continues to spread”, – said the general director.
He stressed that a sharp increase in the incidence, noted in recent weeks in five of the six WHO regions, is due to a large extent “extremely infectious delta option, which is now discovered by at least 132 countries.”