Is the world ready to follow in the footsteps of Europe and treat COVID like the flu?
New Delhi: Corona cases are increasing all over the world. This is believed to be the third wave of possible corona. Call it a return to normalcy or usher in a new era of the COVID-19 pandemic. But many countries, especially in the West, are moving towards accepting the coronavirus as a pandemic and treating it simply as the flu. The latest case is from Spain. After 2 years of curfews, lockdowns, mask mandates and movement restrictions, the question has arisen at times whether the world is really ready to go a step ahead and treat COVID like the flu. However, health experts in India and around the world have strictly warned against leaving security guards against the corona virus as it is a constantly changing virus. So are we really ready to treat Covid like the flu? Here is an analysis of what global health bodies and various governments are saying about the endemic phase of the coronavirus pandemic phase. (corona like flu)
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WHO’s stand
The WHO has vehemently and vehemently opposed the idea of a cure for COVID-19 and warned against waiving restrictions, especially the wearing of masks. Health body chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently said that omicron is less severe than the delta version of the coronavirus, but is still killing and affecting people, especially those who have not been vaccinated. . However, the WHO itself assumed that most people in Europe would be infected with the new variant.
Expert opinion ( corona like flu)
On the other hand, many health experts in the United States are supporting the idea of a cure for COVID with maximum focus on vaccination against the virus. Dr Clive Dix, a UK-based health expert and former chairman of the country’s Vaccine Task Force, recently said it is time to enter an endemic phase and consider treating COVID like the flu. However, health experts in Spain are divided over whether to treat COVID itself as the flu’s approach. It is a mistake to think that setting up quarantines in schools with five children instead of not counting infections, or reducing the number of days of isolation, or maintaining what they were, will not be a problem. The problem remains, and has to be addressed….López Acua, a leading epidemiologist and former WHO directive, told a Spanish broadcaster
Treating covid like the flu is helping european countries
Since Spain is the first country to officially announce that it will now treat COVID as an endemic, it is pertinent to understand the developing trend of the virus in the country. In the past week, Spain recorded over 100 Covid-related deaths on a daily basis. Now the United Kingdom, another proponent of the new normal approach, has certainly seen a decline in Covid infections, but is still reporting over 1 lakh cases every day for the past few days with over 250 deaths per day. Now, it boils down to a pertinent question. If there are 100-200 deaths per day from a single infection, is there an idea of what is normal for a country? (corona like flu)
