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Aug 10, 2021, 6 tweets

🆕 WHO guidance for national surveillance of #COVID19 virus variants 👉bit.ly/3lOLHzP

Standardizing the monitoring & reporting of the variants will give us a better understanding of the virus at a global scale.

To help countries detect & report new #COVID19 virus variants, the 🆕 guidance includes

✅ recommended disease surveillance activities
✅ how to report data
✅ studies to understand the variants’ impact

More in detail 👉bit.ly/3lOLHzP

The #COVID19 Delta variant of concern is the most transmissible variant so far.

Here is what we know about it ⬇

Listen to Dr @mvankerkhove share how we can keep ourselves safe from the #COVID19 Delta variant ⬇

To control the spread of the #COVID19 Delta variant, we need:

🔸better surveillance
🔸more strategic testing
🔸stronger contact tracing
🔸 early clinical care
🔸well-trained & well-protected 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️
🔸more R&D
🔸more vaccines

Do the current batch of approved #COVID19 vaccines protect us from the Delta variant❓ 
 
WHO’s Chief Scientist Dr @doctorsoumya explains in #ScienceIn5 ⬇️

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