On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced publicly that COVID-19 was no longer a 'global health emergency.'
On Friday, the World Health Organization announced publicly that COVID-19 was no longer a "global health emergency,” according to a report by theThe organization claimed the virus' death rate had dropped from a high of more than 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 on 24 April.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the WHO, said that officially at least seven million people died in the pandemic but that the"Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I've accepted that advice. It is therefore with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency," the official said.
This sentiment was echoed by Dr Mike Ryan, from the WHO's health emergencies programme, who said the threat is still there despite the emergency having ended."We fully expect that this virus will continue to transmit and this is the history of pandemics," he said."In most cases, pandemics truly end when the next pandemic begins,” he
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