GENEVA, May 17 —A senior World Health Organisation official said today that high levels of transmission of the coronavirus among unvaccinated people, such as in North Korea, creates a higher risk of new variants.
“Certainly it’s worrying if countries ... are not using the tools that are now available,” said WHO emergencies director Mike Ryan in response to a question about the outbreak in North Korea. “WHO has repeatedly said that where you have unchecked transmission, there is always a higher risk of new variants emerging,” he said. — Reuters
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