The pandemic is far from over, the WHO’s leader insisted Wednesday, two years after he first used the term to wake the world up to the emerging threat of Covid-19.
The World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus first described Covid-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.The WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern — the highest level of alarm in the UN health agency’s regulations — on January 30, 2020, when, outside of China, fewer than 100 cases and no deaths had been reported.
“Although reported cases and deaths are declining globally, and several countries have lifted restrictions, the pandemic is far from over — and it will not be over anywhere until it’s over everywhere.” He also sounded a warning on the recent plunge in testing rates, saying it left the planet blind to what Covid-19 was up to.“This inhibits our ability to see where the virus is, how it’s spreading and how it’s evolving.”The number of fresh cases fell five percent worldwide last week compared to the week before, while the number of deaths dropped eight percent.
“Even though we are seeing declining trends… there were still more than 10 million reported cases reported at a global level last week.In its weekly update on the spread of the virus, the WHO said earlier that the Omicron variant had “global dominance” over other mutations of the virus.
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