A World Heath Organization emergency committee will discuss whether to recommend the agency's director general lift what's known as the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency of International Concern, according to a report in STAT.
about to be officially over?global health emergency declarationFriday, a WHO emergency committee will discuss whether to recommend the agency's director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, lift what's known as the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency of International Concern, according toBut the Boston-based medical journalism publication said ending the emergency order "would not be a declaration that COVID no longer poses a threat to the world, nor would it constitute a declaration...
Under an international health regulations treaty, a global health emergency declaration gives the WHO the power to issue temporary recommendations to countries, although they are not always followed. Tedros, who has the final say over what will happen to the COVID-19 global health emergency order, seemed to suggest during the"While I will not preempt the advice of the emergency committee, I remain very concerned by the situation in many countries and the rising number of deaths," the director general told reporters.
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