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		</div><p>The Covid-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over”, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the Omicron wave.</p>
<p>The UN health agency’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told officials gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the opening of the WHO’s annual meeting that “we lower our guard at our peril”.</p>
<p>He said “declining testing and sequencing means we are blinding ourselves to the evolution of the virus”, and noted that almost one billion people in lower-income countries had still not been vaccinated.</p>
<p>In a weekly report on the global situation on Thursday, the WHO said the number of new Covid-19 cases appeared to have stabilised after weeks of decline since late March, while the overall number of weekly deaths had dropped.</p>
<p>While there had been progress, with 60% of the world’s population vaccinated, “it’s not over anywhere until it’s over everywhere”, Dr Tedros said.</p>
<p>“Reported cases are increasing in almost 70 countries in all regions, and this in a world in which testing rates have plummeted,” he added.</p>
<p>Reported deaths were rising in Africa, the continent with the lowest vaccination coverage, he said, and only 57 countries — almost all of them wealthy — had vaccinated 70% of their people.</p>
<p>While the world’s vaccine supply had improved, there was “insufficient political commitment to roll out vaccines” in some countries, and gaps in “operational or financial capacity” in others, he said.</p>
<p>“In all, we see vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation and disinformation,” Dr Tedros said.</p>
<p>“The pandemic will not magically disappear, but we can end it.”</p>
<p>Dr Tedros is expected to be appointed for a second five-year term this week at the World Health Assembly, the annual meeting of the WHO’s member countries.</p>
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