Coronavirus: WHO maintains highest alert

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The pandemic is likely to be at a “transitional point” that continues to require careful management to “limit potential negative impacts,” the statement said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that COVID-19 is still a global emergency –the Agency’s highest alert level.

The pandemic is likely at a “transitional point” that continues to require careful management to “limit possible negative impacts,” the WHO added in a statement.

It has been three years since the Agency declared COVID a global emergency.

More than 6.8 million people have lost their lives from the pandemic, which has hit every country on the planet, negatively affecting economies and communities.

However, the development of vaccines and treatments has changed the state of the pandemic significantly since 2020, and WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed hope that the global emergency will end this year, especially if global health improves. access to remedies.

We remain optimistic that within the next year the world will move into a new phase in which covid hospitalizations will be reduced and deaths will fall to the lowest possible level,” Ghebreyesus said at a WHO meeting today.

Advisers to the WHO’s expert panel on the pandemic situation told Reuters in December that it may not be time to end the state of alert given the uncertainty over the wave of infections in China after the lifting of strict measures under the zero-tolerance policy. covid at the end of 2022.

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