A dramatic drop in testing for COVID-19 has left the world blind to the virus's continuing rampage and its potentially dangerous mutations, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday.
The World Health Organization said that reported COVID-19 cases and deaths had been dropping dramatically. FILE PHOTO
While this is "a very welcome trend," he warned that the declining numbers could also be a result of significant cuts in testing for the virus."When it comes to a deadly virus, ignorance is not bliss." Speaking at the press conference hosted by WHO, he pointed out that in the past four months, amid surging COVID-19 cases from the Omicron variant, "testing rates have plummeted by 70 to 90 percent worldwide."
The COVID-19 pandemic has officially caused more than six million deaths since the virus first surfaced in China in late 2019, but the true toll is believed to be at least three times that high.
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