The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday (30) that Covid-19 remains a public health emergency of international concern, its highest form of warning.
The pandemic is likely at a “transition point” that remains in need of careful management to “mitigate potential negative consequences,” the agency added in a statement.
It’s been three years since the WHO first declared that Covid posed a global health emergency. More than 6.8 million people died during the outbreak, which reached every country on Earth, devastating communities and economies.
However, the advent of vaccines and treatments has considerably changed the pandemic situation since 2020, and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he expects to see an end to the emergency this year, particularly if access to countermeasures can be gained. be improved globally.
Advisers to the WHO’s expert committee on the status of the pandemic told Reuters in December that it was probably not the time to end the emergency, given uncertainty about the surge in infections in China after it lifted its strict zero-Covid measures at the end. from 2022.
Source: CNN Brasil
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