Three years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus disease COVID-19 a pandemic.
Almost 7 million deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded since then, although the actual number of deaths is much higher. This was stated by the head of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at the award ceremony for the contribution to health care, the press service of the organization reports.
According to Ghebreyesus, it will be possible to declare the end of the pandemic as early as 2023.
I am confident that at some point this year we will be able to say that COVID-19 has ended as a public health emergency of international concern – and as a pandemic,” he stressed.
According to him, now the situation with COVID-19 in the world is in a much better position than ever during the pandemic.
It’s great to see that, for the first time, the weekly number of reported deaths is lower than when we first used the word “pandemic” three years ago. The improvement is significant,” Ghebreyesus noted.
Ghebreyesus notes that the pandemic, in particular, has shown that an advanced healthcare system is not the same as a strong public health system.
Some countries with state-of-the-art health care have been overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, while middle-income countries with fewer resources have fared much better with health investments in the aftermath of SARS, MERS, H1N1 and other outbreaks. WHO.
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