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The World Health Organization has urged governments and health care systems to take urgent steps to curb Covid-19 transmission as a fresh wave of infections surges around the globe. The announcement comes as virologists and health officials sound the alarm over two sub-variant strains 鈥� BA.5 and BA.2.75.

Dr Eric Topol is the director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California in the US. He told Newsday there鈥檚 鈥渢his sense that the way we keep moving on in the pandemic that we鈥檙e going to get more mild variants and it will fade away. That is completely debunked with BA.5, which has gone in the opposite direction鈥�the real issue is we鈥檙e going to see a worse variant than we have right now鈥� and we鈥檙e not prepared鈥� because there鈥檚 so much complacency.鈥�

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