The World Health Organisation said on May 5 that Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency and this is why. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom said that
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom said that the public health emergency of international concern declaration should end.
“For more than a year the pandemic has been on a downward trend. Yesterday, the emergency committee met for the 15time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice.
Covid-19 technical director at WHO Dr Maria Van Kerkhove said that the emergency phase maybe over but the disease is “here to stay” and the coronavirus that causes the disease is not going away anytime soon. “While we’re not in the crisis mode, we can’t let our guard down. Epidemiologically, this virus will continue to cause waves. What we are hopeful of is that we have the tools in place to ensure that the future waves do not result in more severe disease, don’t result in waves of death and we can do that with the tools we have at hand. We just need to make sure that we are tracking the virus because it will continue to evolve.
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