Breaking: The World Health Organization said COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating pandemic. Read more:
The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.
Tedros said the pandemic had been on a downward trend for more than a year, acknowledging that most countries have already returned to life before COVID-19. He bemoaned the damage that COVID-19 had done to the global community, saying the virus had shattered businesses and plunged millions into poverty.
In the U.S., the public health emergency declaration made regarding COVID-19 is set to expire May 11, when wide-ranging measures to support the pandemic response, including vaccine mandates, will end. Many other countries, including Germany, France and Britain, dropped many of their provisions against the pandemic last year.
WHO made its decision to lower its highest level of alert Friday, after convening an expert group Thursday. The U.N. agency doesn’t “declare” pandemics, but first used the term to describe the outbreak in, when the virus had spread to every continent except Antarctica, long after many other scientists had said a pandemic was already underway.
Numerous scientists also slammed WHO’s reluctance to acknowledge that COVID-19 was frequently spread in the air and by people without symptoms, criticizing the agency’s lack of strong guidance to prevent such exposure.of rich countries that hoarded the limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, warning that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” by failing to share shots with poor countries.
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