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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

WHO Chief Says We Are ‘Increasingly Blind’ on COVID Transmission

A girl receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccination, at Phuc Dien elementary school in Hanoi, Vietnam, 26 April 2022, as a part of COVID-19 vaccination campaign for children aged 5 to 11 in Hanoi. (EPA)

The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to maintain surveillance of coronavirus infections, saying the world was "blind" to how the virus is spreading because of falling testing rates.

"As many countries reduce testing, WHO is receiving less and less information about transmission and sequencing," Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference at the UN agency's headquarters in Geneva.

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