The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday (19) that Covid-19 remains a global emergency, almost three years after it was declared in this way.
The WHO emergency committee first made the emergency declaration for the disease on 30 January 2020. This determination can help accelerate research, funding and international public health measures to contain a disease.
The United Nations (UN) agency has highlighted in recent months that, although cases are falling in parts of the world, countries still need to maintain vigilance and press to vaccinate the most vulnerable populations.
“Although the public perception is that the pandemic is over in some parts of the world, it remains a public health event that continues to adversely and strongly affect the health of the world’s population,” the WHO committee warned.
They also pointed out that although the number of deaths per week is the lowest since the beginning of the pandemic, they still remain high compared to other viruses.
“This pandemic has surprised us before and it may well come back,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom warned reporters.
Source: CNN Brasil
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