WHO will examine whether Covid-19 remains a “global emergency”

Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom GhebreyesusThis week, the WHO announced that the Covid-19 Emergency Committee will meet “to discuss whether the current situation continues to represent a global emergency”.

“Almost exactly 3 years after the announcement Public Health Emergency of International Importance, “At our highest level of alert, this week the Covid-19 Emergency Committee will meet to discuss whether the current situation continues to represent a global emergency.”

But Tedros wanted to warn that there has been an increase in deaths from this disease in recent weeks. In total, more than 170,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the past eight weeks. “This is just reported deaths; The actual death toll is much higher. warned. “While I cannot go ahead of the Emergency Committee’s advice, I am very concerned about the situation in many countries and the rising death toll,” he adds.

Source: Informacion

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