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'60-70% of population needs to be immune to curb Covid-19 transmission'

  •   Sat, Nov 28 2020 01:36:37 PM

Geneva, Nov 28 (IANS): Modeling studies have revealed that about 60 to 70 percent of the global population needs to be immune to curb or halt Covid-19 transmission, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said.

Noting the WHO cannot give the exact number of "the proportion of the population that would need to be immunized... The answer to that can come from modeling studies", Xinhua news agency quoted Katherine O'Brien, director of WHO's Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, as saying at a virtual briefing on Friday.

"These modeling studies under a variety of conditions have concluded that somewhere around 60 to 70 percent of the population would need to be immune, presumably through immunization, in order to achieve a reduction or an interruption of transmission of the virus.

"That's of course predicated on what the performance of the vaccines would be," she added.

The remarks come as the overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 61.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.44 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Saturday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 61,585,651 and 1,441,875, respectively.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 13,086,367 and 264,842, respectively, according to the CSSE.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,309,787, while the country's death toll soared to 135,715.

In the same virtual briefing on Friday, Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead for WHO's Health Emergencies Program, said that countries with decreasing Covid-19 numbers still need to stay "vigilant".

"Even as case numbers are coming down, all countries need to remain vigilant. You've heard of this before, but we really need to emphasize it again. Do not let your guard down.

"It's good to see the measures taking effect and transmission going down. But it's not time to let up. It's time to even scale up.

"What we don't want to see in situations where you are moving from a so-called lockdown state to bring the virus under control to moving to a so-called lockdown state," she added.

 
  

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  • John, Mangalore

    Sat, Nov 28 2020

    Jesus on the viruses, fear, vaccines, false positives, shutdown, mandatory vaccines... in a message to John Leary dated Sunday, October 18, 2020.

    Jesus said: “My people, in many Gospels I speak about having no fear from evil people or diseases. There truly are the elite rich people who want to control the people through fear. They also have a desire to reduce the population, just as Satan is leading them. These rich people are using man-made viruses, like the corona virus, and vaccines to kill off people. They use the media to claim more cases of virus, when there are many false positives. They also claim more virus deaths, but people are dying from other causes. By using this fear of death from the virus, they use this to control your population, and provide reason to shut down your businesses to ruin your economy. You can see how these evil ones will provide a corona virus vaccine that will be dangerous for your health, and it will not stop the virus. They will then try and make this vaccine mandatory to control your population, and add a chip in the body to tell who had the vaccine. Refuse to take any vaccine or flu shot, and do not take any chip in the body to control your mind. If they threaten your lives to imprison you for not taking the vaccine, you will need to come to My refuges which will be your new castle of protection by My angels. At My refuges you will have My luminous cross that you can look on, and you will be healed of all of your ailments and viruses. My angels will give you daily Holy Communion, and they will multiply your water, food, and fuels for your survival. So have no fear of the evil ones, because I will protect My faithful believers. Only those people, who believe in Me, will receive a cross on their forehead, that will allow them to enter My refuges. Fear is useless, but only have trust and faith that I will take care of My faithful with an invisible shield.”

    Ref:
    http://www.johnleary.com/index.php/?cat=3&order=DESC

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