While the World Health Organization has ended the global emergency for COVID-19The virus remains dangerous and China will continue to monitor it by increasing vaccinations among high-risk groups, a senior Chinese health official said.

The WHO yesterday raised its highest COVID alert level more than three years after it was announced, saying countries must now fight the virus along with other infectious diseases.

The end of the high alert does not mean that COVID will disappear, but its impact can now be effectively brought under control, Liang Wanyan, head of China’s COVID-19 expert team at the National Health Commission, said in an interview with state-run CCTV. web and published today.

China will continue to monitor various strains of the virus, increase vaccination of vulnerable groups, and strive to improve COVID treatment capabilities, Liang said.

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.