The director general of World Health Organization (WHO)Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared, this Friday (5/5), that Covid-19 is no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PII).
The change in the classification of the pandemic comes one day after the 15th Meeting of the Emergency Committee for Covid-19.
The WHO panel of experts has met periodically since January 2020 to analyze pandemic data and determine when the right time to lower the level of concern about the coronavirus would be.
“I took that advice. It is therefore with great hope that I declare the end of Covid-19 a global health emergency,” she states.
When Covid-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest level of alarm, there were less than 100 cases of the disease reported outside China and no deaths. After three years, three months and five days, more than 765 million cases have been registered worldwide and 6,921,614 deaths. “It’s been three years. Since then, Covid-19 has turned our world upside down”, considers Ghebreyesus.
The WHO leader recalled that Covid-19 was not only a health problem related to viral infection, but also led to a global economic crisis, impacts on education, led millions of people to loneliness due to isolation and exposed inequalities between nations.
“Covid-19 has exposed and exacerbated political failures within and between nations. It has eroded trust between people, governments and institutions fueled by a torrent of misinformation.”
downward trend
For more than a year, Covid-19 data has shown a downward trend, at the same time that there has been an increase in immunity due to vaccination and previous infection, a decrease in mortality and the pressure on health systems.
Wait for more information.
