Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization says
WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee discussed the pandemic on Thursday at its 15th meeting on Covid-19, and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus concurred that the public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, declaration should end. “For more than a year the pandemic has been on a downward trend,” Tedros said at a news conference Friday. “This trend has allowed most countries to return to life as we knew it before Covid-19,” Tedros said.
A PHEIC creates an agreement between countries to abide by WHO’s recommendations for managing the emergency. Each country, in turn, declares its own public health emergency – declarations that carry legal weight. Countries use them to marshal resources and waive rules in order to ease a crisis. The United States is set to let its Covid-19 public health emergency end on May 11. There have been more than 765 million confirmed Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, according to WHO data.
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