🌎 Over the last few weeks, many countries and territories in the Americas have scaled back public health measures, and some have done so prematurely.
 
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🌎 Countries must keep testing capacity in place, so we do not go into this next wave blind.

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🌎 Throughout the pandemic, testing has been a critical tool to track COVID’s spread.
 
But today, some countries have changed their testing strategies, making it more difficult to get the full picture of BA.2 in our Region.
 
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🌎 It is important to continue filling our vaccination 🩹 gaps to protect the most vulnerable.

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🌎 We cannot ignore the risk of further COVID-19 surges in other parts of the Region.
 
We must face it together, with caution, but also with confidence because we know what it takes to protect our people.
 
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🌎 In fact, Omicron BA.2 has already been detected in 8.7% of the sequences 🧬 reported from South America in global databases.

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🌎 We know that what has happened elsewhere in the world foreshadows what our Region may face.
 
Time and time again, we’ve seen how the infection 🦠 dynamics in Europe are mirrored here, just a few weeks later.
 
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🌎 Over the past few weeks, COVID cases and deaths have dropped across most countries and territories in the Americas.
 
But our Region continues to record more than 620,000 new cases every week, and in some places, infections 🦠 are rising again.

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