COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency. However, the threat of the coronavirus remains.
The World Health Organization said on Friday May 5 that COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency. The WHO announced this in Twitter.
At the same time, the organization emphasized that COVID-19 continues, even if its spread is no longer a reason to declare an emergency.
“This experience should change us all for the better. It should make us more determined to realize the vision that people had when the WHO was founded in 1948: the highest possible standard of health for all people,” said the Director of the World Health Organization- General Tedros Adhan Ghebreyesus.
He noted that the pandemic has been on a downward trend for more than a year, but acknowledged that most countries have returned to their pre-pandemic way of life.
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— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) May 5, 2023
Remember, the WHO Emergency Committee for the first time announced that COVID-19 poses the highest level of risk since January 30, 2020.
The death rate has now fallen from a peak of more than 100,000 a week in January 2021 to about 3,500 a week to April 24, according to the WHO. In just three years, 764 million people have contracted the coronavirus. About 5 million people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
As you know, the Cabinet of Ministers extended the state of emergency due to the coronavirus until June 30 this year. About 100 people die from COVID-19 every week in Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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