* WHO chief warned against dismissing the coronavirus Omicron variant as mild
* Omicron more contagious than previous variants but causes less serious disease
* Some have suggested that Covid is passing from pandemic stage to endemic
* But Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the sheer numbers of people still being infected will mean many vulnerable people falling ill and dying
The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, the World Health Organization's chief said Tuesday, cautioning against a narrative that the the Omicron variant is risk-free.
'This pandemic is nowhere near over,' chief of the UN health body Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from WHO's headquarters in Geneva.
Tedros warned against dismissing the coronavirus Omicron variant - which has spread like wildfire around the globe since it was first detected in southern Africa in November - as mild.
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