As Delta variant cases rise, WHO asks fully vaccinated to keep masks on

WHO officials said they are urging people completely vaccinated to continue “playing the safe” because highly contagious variants, such as Delta, are spreading in many countries.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that people who are totally vaccinated must continue with masks, follow social security measures and other safety measures to contain the spread of the most deadly and contagious delta of Coronavirus, That is spreading rapidly through the globe.

Mariangela Simao, Deputy General Director of Access to Medicines and Health Products, said people can not feel safe only because they had both doses and they still need to protect themselves. “The vaccine alone will not stop the transmission of the community. People should continue using masks in a consistent manner, are in ventilated spaces, hygiene of the hand … the physical distance, avoid overcrowding,” said Simao during an informative session of News from the Geneva headquarters of the agency, according to CNBC. “This remains extremely important, even if it is vaccinated when it has an ongoing community transmission,” she added.

According to CNBC, WHO officials said they are urging people completely vaccinated to continue “playing the safe” because highly contagious variants, such as Delta, are spreading in many countries, unleashing outbreaks and a large part of the world The disease of Coronavirus or Covid-19 has not yet been shown.

“Yes, it can reduce some measures and different countries have different recommendations in that sense. But there is still a need for caution. As we are seeing, there are new emerging variants,” Dr. Bruce Aylward, Principal Adviser to the Director General of the WHO, was cited by CNBC.

The Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus, said on Friday that the Delta variant, seen for the first time in India, is “the most communicable of the variants identified so far,” and warned that it is now extending at least 85 countries Tedros ADHANOM GHEBEYESUS said that the lack of vaccines in poor countries was exacerbating the transmission of the Delta variant.

In India, Delta Plus, the most virulent version of the virus, has been reported from 12 states and there have been 51 cases and the maximum of Maharashtra. However, the government has said that its numbers are “very localized” and can not be said that it is showing an upward trend. Officials have said that the Delta variant has almost 15-17 mutations and was reported for the first time in October of last year, and was responsible for more than 60 percent of cases in Maharashtra in February.