(Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that COVID-19 remains a global emergency nearly three years after it was first declared.
The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee made the first declaration of COVID-19 on January 30, 2020. This decision could help accelerate research, funding and international public health measures to contain the disease.
The UN agency has said in recent months that while cases are declining in parts of the world, countries still need to maintain their vigilance and press for the most vulnerable populations to be vaccinated.
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Although the general perception is that the pandemic is over in some parts of the world, the WHO panel said, it remains a public health event that continues to negatively and powerfully affect the health of the world’s population.
She noted that although the number of weekly deaths is the lowest since the beginning of the epidemic, it is still high compared to other viruses.
“This epidemic has surprised us before and perhaps again,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
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Additional reporting by Manas Mishra in Bengaluru and Jennifer Rigby in London; Edited by Shalish Cooper
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