GENEVA, Nov 26 — Covid vaccines reduce transmission of the dominant Delta variant by about 40 per cent, the WHO said Wednesday, warning that people were falling into a false sense of security concerning jabs.
The World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said many vaccinated people were wrongly thinking the jab meant they no longer needed to take any other precautions.
Fully-immunised people must stick with measures to avoid catching the virus and passing it on, Tedros insisted, spelling out how the more contagious Delta meant the vaccines were not as effective against transmission.
“We’re concerned about the false sense of security that vaccines have ended the pandemic and people who are vaccinated do not need to take any other precautions,” Tedros told reporters.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the UN health agency’s technical lead on Covid, said the Delta variant itself was evolving and the WHO was trying to track circulation and changes in the virus.
Last week, more than 60 per cent of all reported Covid-19 infections and deaths were in Europe, with the sheer number of cases translating into unsustainable pressure on health systems and exhausted health workers, said Tedros
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