Experts urge more testing with new COVID-19 variant - AP Explains why

Описание: (14 Aug 2023)
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Beijing, China – 14 August 2023

1. Various of street filled with takeaway food and crowds of people

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Van Kerkhove, MERS/COV advisor, World Health Organization
“I think the notion that the variants can emerge from one country or another is false and it's dangerous because you think that the problem is somewhere else. The virus is circulating so much right now that it's been evolving.”

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Archive: New York - 28 July 2023

3. Various of people walking and standing around the Bronx area of New York

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4. Various of people looking at stage during street festival
5. Various of crowds walking

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Van Kerkhove, MERS/COV advisor, World Health Organization
“This is not a dominant variant worldwide, we classify it as a variant of interest because it has an increased growth rate and we expect that it will increase in detection around the world. But surveillance and sequencing remains quite limited. So it's very difficult for us to say what is circulating everywhere.”

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Archive: Tokyo, Japan - 26 July 2023

7. Various of people walking and holding parasols in a busy area of Tokyo
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9. Women looking at phones, one wearing a face mask
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Van Kerkhove, MERS/COV advisor, World Health Organization
“We're looking at several different characteristics of them growth rates and unique shape severity and our impact on interventions, how our diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines work. So all of the variants that are in circulation, we are constantly monitoring those against those different characteristics. For EG.5 we see that it has an increased growth rate,which means it's more transmissible because of that growth rate increase and it's immune escape. So people are going to get infected. We see a similar level of severity as in it's not less severe or more severe could cause the full range of disease. But it's it's on our radar. It was a variant under monitoring since July because of this increased growth rate. And now we're detecting it in more countries. And we expect that in some countries it may become dominant.”

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Archive: Seoul, South Korea - 29 June 2023

12. Various of people walking in busy streets in Seoul
13. Women in shop trying on hats
14. People walking in underground shopping centre

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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Van Kerkhove, MERS/COV advisor, World Health Organization
“We have to keep a close eye on it and we want more studies to be done to really evaluate more of its properties of whether or not there are any changes needed in our therapeutics or in our in our vaccine. So far, we don't, but it's one we have to watch.”

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Beijing, China – 14 August 2023

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17. Various of people walking past food stands
18. People standing watching a street performance

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19. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Van Kerkhove, MERS/COV advisor, World Health Organization

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