International emergencies declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) due to covid-19 in 2020 and mpox (monkey pox) in 2022.it may end sometime next year“, the general director of the organization said at a press conference today, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“Omicron variant was killed a year ago 50,000 people every week, and last week they less than 10,000, “It’s still an extreme but a good trend, so we hope at some point this will cease to be a global emergency,” Tedros said at WHO’s press conference to review its work in 2022.
But “the coronavirus will not go away, it will stay and countries will have to learn to manage it along with other respiratory problems like the flu,” he said.
“We’ve come a long way and the situation is now significantly better, so the world is reopening, but the virus (causing covid) came to stayIt’s almost part of our family, and what matters is how we manage it,” said Tedros.
“We know better. we have tools like vaccines, treatmentsand more importantly, we now have population immunity, both vaccinated and naturally (by people with the disease)”, the Ethiopian expert analyzed.
“Raise the international emergency It is in our hands (for Covid) that it is a matter of protecting risk groups such as the elderly and the vulnerable population,” he said.
The criteria for deciding whether the COVID-19 outbreak has ceased to be an international emergency will be analyzed at the meeting in January. next expert committee meeting Tedros, who has met quarterly since 2020 to analyze the evolution of the health crisis, recalled the meeting.
The WHO chief emphasized that although both the covid and mpox crises have decreased in the number of cases, the world is still face to face. many health problemsand in this context, he talked about the cholera epidemics declared in 29 countries, including the cholera epidemics that killed 280 people in Haiti.
“Until 2023 reasons for hope “But there is much to worry about, and in that sense, WHO remains committed to member states to build a safer and healthier future for the population.”