The World Health Organization said today that Covid-19 will soon be comparable to the seasonal flu threat as it hopes to reduce the maximum alert level this year.

“I think we have come to a point where we can think of Covid-19 the same way we think of seasonal flu, which is a health threat, a virus that will continue to kill, but it is a virus that is not destroying our society. . … or our health systems,” Michael Ryan, head of the WHO emergency program, said at a press conference.

Joining him, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was “very pleased to find that for the first time, the weekly number of deaths reported over the past four weeks was lower than when we used the word ‘pandemic’ for the first time.” , three years ago”.

“We are certainly in a much better position today than we have ever been during a pandemic,” he said.

So he said he was “confident” that the WHO could lower the maximum alert level “this year”.

The WHO declared it a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” on January 30, 2020 with fewer than 100 cases worldwide and no deaths outside of China, but it was in March 2020 that Tedros declared the situation a pandemic. in which the world fully realized the seriousness of the threat to health.

“We have declared a global health emergency to urge countries to take decisive action, but not all have done so,” he said today.

“Three years later, almost seven million deaths from Covid-19 were recorded, although we know that the number of deaths from suicide is higher,” he added.

Source: RES-IPE