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WHO CLASSIFIES EG.5 AS COVID-19 'VARIANT OF INTEREST'

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Leroy Leo
August 9, 202311:08 PM GMT+2Updated a year ago
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 * WHO calls on countries to share COVID data
 * EG.5 variant has increased transmissibility
 * But EG.5 not seen as having more public health risks

Aug 9 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Wednesday classified the EG.5
coronavirus strain circulating in the United States and China as a "variant of
interest" but said it did not seem to pose more of a threat to public health
than other variants.
The fast-spreading variant, the most prevalent in the United States with an
estimated more than 17% of cases, has been behind upticks in the virus across
the country and also has been detected in China, South Korea, Japan and Canada,
among other countries.
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"Collectively, available evidence does not suggest that EG.5 has additional
public health risks relative to the other currently circulating Omicron
descendent lineages," the WHO said in a risk evaluation.
A more comprehensive evaluation of the risk posed by EG.5 was needed, it added.
COVID-19 has killed more than 6.9 million people globally, with more than 768
million confirmed cases since the virus emerged. WHO declared the outbreak a
pandemic in March 2020 and ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 in May
this year.
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Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead on COVID-19, said EG.5 had an
increased transmissibility but was not more severe than other Omicron variants.
"We don't detect a change in severity of EG.5 compared to other sublineages of
Omicron that have been in circulation since late 2021," she said.
Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus deplored that many countries were
not reporting COVID-19 data to WHO.

He said that only 11% had reported hospitalizations and ICU admissions related
to the virus.
In response, WHO issued a set of standing recommendations for COVID, in which it
urged countries to continue reporting COVID data, particularly mortality data,
morbidity data, and to continue to offer vaccination.
Van Kerkhove said that the absence of data from many countries was hindering
efforts to fight the virus.

"About a year ago, we were in a much better situation to either anticipate or
act or be more agile," she said. "And now the delay in our ability to do that is
growing. And our ability to do this is declining."

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Reporting by Leroy Leo in Bengaluru and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber in Geneva;
Editing by Toby Chopra and Angus MacSwan

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