COVID-19 REMAINS A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY: WHO

Tue 12July 2022:

COVID-19 is still a global emergency, according to the World Health Organization, over two and a half years after it was first declared one.

Rising cases, continuous viral evolution, and strain on health services in several countries, according to the Emergency Committee, a group of independent specialists, meant that the situation was still one of emergency, they said in a statement.

Cases reported to WHO had risen by 30 per cent in the last fortnight, the statement said, although the committee accepted that increased population immunity, largely from vaccines, had seen a “decoupling” of cases from hospitalisations and deaths.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accepted the committee’s advice.

On January 30, 2020, the UN health agency first declared COVID-19 to be at the highest level of alert, or a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Such a commitment can speed disease control research, funding, and global public health initiatives.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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