In accordance with the WHO’s Thirteen 13th Global Programme of Work (GPW13), which draws on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and efforts to strengthen health systems to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the new strategy will support WHO Member States in developing seasonal influenza prevention and control capacities.
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反過來，這些努力將有助於改善對下一次大流行的準備。
These efforts, in turn, will build greater preparedness for the next pandemic.
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該戰略著重於三個優先事項，即加強大流行的防範，發展季節性流感的預防和預防，研究和創新。
The strategy focuses on three priorities, strengthening pandemic preparedness, expanding seasonal influenza prevention and control and research and innovation.
Research and innovation includes improved modelling and forecasting of influenza outbreaks, along with the development of new vaccines, including a possible universal influenza vaccine that would work against all influenza virus strains.
On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE).
This decision was based on the evidence presented to the TAG-VE that Omicron has several mutations that may have an impact on how it behaves, for example, on how easily it spreads or the severity of illness it causes.