The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the COVID-19 global health emergency as over.
The Director General of the WHO, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, made the announcement this morning.
He says that yesterday the emergency committee met for the 15th time and recommended that he declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern.
“It is with great hope that I declare COVID-19 as a global health emergency,” he says.
Ghebreyesus notes however, that while COVID is over as a global emergency it is not over as a threat. He says last week the disease claimed a life once every 3 minutes and that is only death they know about.
Courtesy VOCM News.