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WHO: COVID-19 no longer an International Public Health Emergency

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: News Agency
  • 5 May 2023 20:23
2 Min Read

While COVID-19 remains to circulate and continues to evolve, it will no longer be an unusual event and have the same deadly effect it had over the past few years after the large-scale campaigns of vaccination. 

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  • WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference, Geneva December 20, 2021 (AFP)
    WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference, in Geneva December 20, 2021 (AFP)

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the organization no longer considers COVID-19 a global health emergency. 

"Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice. It is therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency," Ghebreyesus said. 

The official, however, noted that the virus still poses a threat to the health of the human population. He also recognized that while COVID-19 remains to circulate and continues to evolve, it will no longer be an unusual event and have the same deadly effect it had over the past few years after the large-scale campaigns of vaccination.  

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