Three years to the day after the World Health Organization sounded the highest level of global alert over Covid-19, it said on Monday the pandemic remains an international emergency.
GENEVA, Switzerland –
Addressing the WHO’s executive board in Geneva on Monday, Tedros acknowledged that “as we enter the fourth year of the pandemic, there is no doubt we are in a far better situation now than we were a year ago, when the Omicron wave was at its peak”.“In the past eight weeks, more than 170,000 people have lost their lives to Covid-19.”Weekly death rates had dropped from more than 70,000 per week at the start of 2022 to below 10,000 in October.
Three years later, WHO said on Monday that the emergency committee deemed the pandemic is “probably at a transition point”. He also voiced disappointment that many vulnerable people remain un- or under-vaccinated and lack access to the drugs needed to treat severe Covid disease.
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