Mexican president says pandemic ‘on way out’ despite record infections

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Mexican president says pandemic ‘on way out’ despite record infections The country of 126 million people has reported a total of more than 4.1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus theSun thesudnaily Covid-19 pandemic highlycontagious

said Thursday he believed the pandemic was “on the way out“ because the Omicron variant was less severe, even as the country faces record infections from the highly contagious strain.

However World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that while Omicron “causes less severe disease than Delta, it remains a dangerous virus -- particularly for those who are unvaccinated.” “I consider it quite encouraging to be able to verify firsthand that this variant of Covid does not have the lethality, the danger of the previous variant,“ Delta, said Lopez Obrador.

Mexico's 68-year-old president, who was accused of downplaying the risks of the virus early in the crisis, overcame a first bout of Covid-19 in early 2021.AstraZeneca has said that a third dose of its Covid-19 vaccine “significantly” lifted antibody levels against the Omicron strain in a laboratory study.

 

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