WHO declared covid-19 on jan,30 2020
NEW YORK: The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that COVID-19 remains a global emergency, nearly three years after it was first declared as one.
The WHO’s emergency committee first declared COVID-19 on Jan 30, 2020. Such a determination can help accelerate research, funding, and international public health measures to contain the disease.
In recent months, the UN agency has said that while cases are falling in parts of the world, countries still need to maintain vigilance and push to vaccinate their most vulnerable populations.
WHO committee meeting held
“Although the public perception is that the pandemic is over in some parts of the world, it remains a public health event that continues to adversely and strongly affect the health of the world’s population,” the WHO’s committee said.
It noted that even though the number of weekly deaths has been the lowest since the pandemic began, they remain high compared to other viruses. “This pandemic had surprised us before and very well may again,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
