 The World Health Organization's technical lead on COVID-19 says many countries have not reached their peak in cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Also, advice that measures imposed to curb its spread should be eased slowly. WHO Director General Tedros Gebroussus said the UN agency was concerned about a narrative taking hold in some countries that because of vaccines and Omicron's high transmissibility and lower severity preventing transmission is no longer possible and no longer necessary. WHO's Emergencies Chief Mike Rian addressing the same briefing urged countries to chart their own path out of the pandemic and not blindly follow others in relaxing measures. We're concerned that a narrative has taken hold in some countries that because of vaccines and because of Omicron's high transmissibility and lower severity, preventing transmission is no longer possible and no longer necessary. Nothing could be further from the truth. More transmission means more diseases. We're not calling for any country to return to so-called lockdown, but we're calling on all countries to protect their people using every tool in the toolkit, not vaccines alone. It's premature for any country either to surrender or to declare victory. But we are urging caution because many countries have not gone through the peak of Omicron yet. Many countries have low levels of vaccination coverage with very vulnerable individuals within their populations. And it's really, really careful in this situation that one country just doesn't blindly follow the next because that's one way you can fall. Every country has to find its feet nowhere it is, nowhere it wants to go and chart its path. You can look to the experience of others, you can look at what other countries are doing, but please don't just follow blindly what every other country is doing. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.