ICYMI: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that COVID-19 remains a global emergency, nearly three years after it was first declared as one. READ:
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The WHO’s emergency committee first made the declaration for COVID-19 on Jan 30, 2020. Such a determination can help accelerate research, funding and international public health measures to contain a disease. “Although the public perception is that the pandemic is over in some parts of the world, it remains a public health event that continues to adversely and strongly affect the health of the world’s population,” the WHO’s committee said.
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