The World Health Organization has stated that COVID-19 is not a global health emergency. The WHO stated that over the past year the pandemic has tended to decrease, and most countries have already returned to “pre-coronavirus” life.
The decision to cancel the global emergency was made on Thursday, May 4. It is reported by CNN, also a statement about the end of the pandemic appeared on Twitter. WHO.
“The World Health Organization said on Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency. The WHO Emergency Committee on International Health Regulations discussed the pandemic on Thursday at its 15th COVID-19 meeting, and the Director-General WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreis has agreed that the declaration of international public health emergency must end.
During a press conference, the WHO Director General announced a steady downward trend in the incidence of coronavirus over the past year.
“For more than a year now, the pandemic has been on a downward trend. This trend has allowed most countries to return to the life we knew before COVID-19. Yesterday, the Committee of Emergencies met for the fifteenth time and recommended that I declare an end to the Public Health Emergency of international importance. I heeded this advice,” he said.
As recalled by CNN, the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020. About six weeks later, the situation was described as a pandemic.
More than 765 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported since the start of the pandemic, according to the WHO.
According to Tedros Ghebreyesus, at least 20 million people have died during the pandemic.
Europe has the most confirmed cases overall, but America has the most deaths. Approximately one in six deaths occur in the United States.
“Infections peaked in December 2022, when Omicron swept the entire globe, hitting the western Pacific especially hard. But billions of doses of the vaccine have been administered worldwide, and deaths have remained well below previous peaks. Now the number of infections and deaths from Covid -19 is at its lowest level in three years, but more than 3,500 people have died in the last week of April and billions remain unvaccinated.
The head of WHO stressed that the efforts of doctors, governments that resorted to tough measures, as well as ordinary people who made personal sacrifices for the sake of common security, helped to defeat COVID-19.
However, the coronavirus still exists and is causing harm. WHO also calls for conclusions to prepare humanity for new viruses and outbreaks.
Recall, earlier it became known that US President Joe Biden signed a law declassifying intelligence data on the origin of COVID-19. According to the head of state, this is necessary to prevent the emergence of another epidemic of COVID-19.
It was also reported that US Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray said that the COVID-19 pandemic allegedly arose as a result of a leak from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. At the same time, he stressed that the Chinese government is trying in every possible way to prevent the disclosure of the true cause of the pandemic.
Source: Obozrevatel
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