OTTAWA — The World Health Organization decided Monday not to declare an end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
OTTAWA — The World Health Organization decided Monday not to declare an end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency.
“We remain hopeful that in the coming year, the world will transition to a new phase in which we reduce hospitalizations and deaths to the lowest possible level,” he said.By declaring a global emergency, the WHO essentially sounded the alarm on a serious worldwide health risk that required international co-operation.
The formal designation was made on Jan. 30, 2020, when 99 per cent of confirmed COVID-19 cases were still restricted to China. “As we enter the fourth year of the pandemic, we are certainly in a much better position now than we were a year ago when the Omicron wave was at its peak and more than 70 thousand deaths were being reported to WHO each week,” Tedros told the committee Friday.
He also reminded the experts the pandemic response remains “hobbled” in countries without COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics. The group, first struck in 2020 when the threat of COVID-19 first came to light, voted Friday on whether or not to maintain the formal emergency designation.It’s still difficult to say because COVID-19 is still spreading rampantly around the world.
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