The World Health Organization announced the week that ended the emergency declared by COVID-19 more than three years ago, a hit in the erratic process of the end of a pandemic that left a balance of millions of people dead in the whole world has disrupted everyday life in previously unimaginable ways.
“With great hope, I declare the end of COVID-19 an international health emergency”, declared WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
However, WHO officials warned that the decision to lift the emergency does not mean the end of the pandemic and warned countries not to take this decision as a reason to dismantle the response systems against covid. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO technical lead on covid, said that the organization wanted to be as clear as possible, so you know that people will wonder how to think about the pandemic in the future.
