This Friday (5), after more than three years of pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that covid-19 is no longer a public health emergency of international importance, starting to be considered as a “problem established and ongoing health care”.
Since March 2020, the WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee has met periodically to review the global disease situation. During the last session, committee members highlighted the downward trend in deaths and hospitalizations, as well as high levels of immunity in the population.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the end of the public health emergency of international concern, but warned that Covid-19 remains a global threat to health.
According to the WHO, more than 765.2 million cases of covid-19 have been confirmed and almost 7 million deaths worldwide, in addition to having administered more than 13.3 billion doses of vaccines against the disease.
