The World Health Organization today announced the end of the state of emergency in pandemic Covid-19, more than three years after the coronavirus pandemic was officially raised.

“I hopefully announce the end of the global emergency due to Covid-19,” said World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

“However, this does not mean that COVID-19 has ceased to be a global health threat. Last week, COVID-19 took a life every three minutes – and these are only the deaths that we know about, ”the doctor added. Tree.

According to WHO, in theory, the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus pandemic remains, like HIV.

Therefore, with great hope, I declare #COVID-19 ended as a global health emergency.

However, this does not mean that COVID-19 has ceased to be a global health threat.

Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and these are just the deaths that we know about, ”@DrTedros pic.twitter.com/n6zad8qSdx

— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) May 5, 2023

Many countries have long since lifted the Covid state of emergency, lifting many of the public health restrictions that were put in place to combat the coronavirus. The US will lift the state of emergency on May 11.

SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in the city of Wuhan, the capital of the Chinese province of Hubei, in December 2019. Efforts to contain the disease were unsuccessful and the World Health Organization declared it a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”. “January 30, 2020.

On March 11, he officially announced that the pandemic had caused more than 6.9 million deaths and more than 765 million infections. Some researchers believe that the real number of victims of Covid-19 is much higher. Last year, the World Health Organization estimated that about 15 million more people died in the first two years of the pandemic than would have died under normal circumstances.⇒ News today