According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 is no longer a “COVID-19 global health emergency.
The announcement, which comes three years after it initially raised its highest level of warning over the virus, is a significant step toward putting an end to the pandemic.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 is no longer a “global health emergency”.
The announcement, which comes three years after it initially raised its highest level of warning over the virus, is a significant step toward putting an end to the pandemic.
According to the WHO director, the epidemic claimed at least seven million lives.
However, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus claimed that the actual death toll was “likely” higher at 20 million, or close to three times the official estimate, and he cautioned that the virus still posed a serious threat.
“The Emergency Committee met yesterday for the fifteenth time, and they advised that I end the public health emergency of global concern. I’ve taken that counsel. I therefore declare COVID-19 to be a worldwide health emergency, but with enormous hope, Dr. Tedros remarked.
He continued, “The decision was made after careful consideration and data analysis over a period of time.”
He did, however, issue a warning that the threat was not diminished by the lowering of the highest level of alert and that the emergency status might be restored if circumstances altered.
The worst thing any nation could do right now, according to him, was to let its guard down, remove the systems it had put in place, or tell its citizens that COVID-19 was nothing to be concerned about.
In January 2020, the World Health Organization initially designated COVID-19 as a PHEIC (public health emergency of international significance).
This indicated that concerted global effort was required to safeguard people from the novel pathogen.
It is now up to individual nations to continue managing COVID however they see fit.
One of the pandemic’s key turning points was the introduction of vaccines. The WHO estimates that 13 billion doses have been administered, protecting a large number of individuals from fatal sickness and serious illness.
However, the majority of those in need have not received immunizations in many nations.
Worldwide, there have been more than 765 million confirmed COVID infections.
Like many other nations, the US and UK have already discussed “living with the virus” and have scaled back many of the tests and social mixing regulations.
The hazard may still exist, according to Dr. Mike Ryan of the WHO’s health emergencies department, even though the emergency is over.
We absolutely anticipate that this virus will spread because of the history of pandemics, he said.
“It took decades for the 1918 pandemic virus to reach its final stages of extinction.”
“Pandemics typically end when the next pandemic starts,”