WHO Warns of New COVID Surge, Calls on Governments to Boost Vaccination Rates

COVID-19 is making a concerning comeback, according to World Health Organization (WHO) officials, who warned this week of new waves of infections across the world, while urging governments everywhere to launch new vaccination campaigns to persuade more people to get the shot. “The perception that COVID is gone is real, but the virus isn’t gone,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the COVID-19 technical lead at the WHO, told reporters at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Aug. 6. Kerkhove said that the health agency’s global surveillance system has detected that infections with SARS-CoV-2 are on the rise and that there’s a risk of potentially more dangerous new variants emerging....