The World Health Organization (WHO) declared, this Friday (5), the end of the international emergency for the Covid-19 pandemic. The emergency was in effect since January 30, 2020, and has now come to an end due to the remarkable reduction in serious cases and deaths globally.
The decision was announced by the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, one day after the organization’s emergency committee met to analyze the current situation of the pandemic, which in more than three years has affected at least 765 million people and caused the death of about 20 million.
Since the beginning of the year, the number of notified cases and deaths from Covid has been falling globally: in the last week of April, the WHO confirmed 630 thousand cases worldwide and 3.5 thousand deaths. In January, there were more than 1.3 million positive cases and 14,000 deaths, in part due to a wave of infections in China.
*EFE
