The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Covid-19 pandemic is over as a global health emergency.<\/p>\n
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, made the announcement while addressing a media briefing on Covid-19 and global health issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is therefore with great hope that I declare #Covid19 over as a global health emergency. However, that does not mean Covid-19 is over as a global health threat. Last week, Covid-19 claimed a life every three minutes \u2013 and that\u2019s just the deaths we know about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we speak, thousands of people around the world are fighting for their lives in intensive care units. And millions more continue to live with the debilitating effects of post-#Covid19 condition,\u201d the Director General of WHO added.<\/p>\n
The WHO had declared Covid-19 as a global emergency in January 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201c1221 days ago, WHO learned of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China. On the 30th January 2020, on the advice of an Emergency Committee convened under the International Health Regulations, I declared a public health emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of #Covid19 \u2013 the highest level of alarm under international law,\u201d Tedros said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that time, outside China there were fewer than 100 reported [#Covid19] cases, and no reported deaths. In the 3 years since then, Covid-19 has turned our world upside down. Almost 7 million deaths have been reported to WHO, but we know the toll is several times higher \u2013 at least 20 million,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat this news means is that it is time for countries to transition from emergency mode to managing #Covid19 alongside other infectious diseases,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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