(Geneva Composite Electric) The World Health Organization pointed out that when the detection rate of crown disease has declined, the number of new confirmed cases in the world has risen again, which means that known cases are likely to be "the corner of the iceberg", and countries must still be opposite to the crown.Keep your disease.

The WHO reported at a press conference on Tuesday that after a few weeks of decline, the world ’s new crown disease confirmed cases were added last week, an increase of 8 % from the previous week.Among them, the number of new cases in the Western Pacific region including South Korea and China surged by 29 %.Since the end of December last year, the Western Pacific cases have continued to rise, and now surpass Europe as the hottest area with the most new cases.

The Director -General of the WHO Tan Desai pointed out that because the detection rate of crown disease has fallen sharply, this means that "the case we see is just the tip of the iceberg."He said: "We know that when the case increases, the number of deaths will increase. It is expected that some places will continue to increase the epidemic and surge in cases, especially the prevention of transmission measures."

WHOFan Kylekhord, head of the technical head of the Organization Health Emergency Project, pointed out that there are multiple factors behind the surge in cases in the near future. First of all, the highly contagious Omecko strains are still widely spread.

The Latest Epidemium Weekly report shows that 99.9 % of the more than 400,000 coronary virus gene sequences collected worldwide in the past 30 days are Omikon.Omikon includes sub -type strains such as BA.1 and BA.2. Among them, BA.2 is the strongest strain that has so far, but there is no sign that it can lead to more serious diseases.

Secondly, some countries have canceled most or even all epidemic prevention restrictions.At the same time, the global crown vaccine distribution is still extremely uneven, and the vaccine coverage in many places is not high enough, especially among people who may develop into severe infections.

The third factor is the proliferation of error information about the epidemic.Van Kylekhord said: "Omikon is a minor strain, and the big popularity has ended. This is the last crown disease strain we faced. These error information causes a lot of confusion."

Tan Desai emphasized that the popularity of crown diseases has not ended, and it is urged all countries to continue to be vigilant.