WHO experts meet to assess whether COVID-19 still constitutes an international emergency

The Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the pandemic COVID-19 held a new quarterly meeting today to assess the world situation and analyze whether the coronavirus continues to constitute an international emergency, at a time of relatively low infections and deaths.

The experts, chaired by didier houssinanalyzed the current situation of the pandemic behind closed doors, although the decision on whether or not to maintain the international emergency may not be known until the next few days.

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Last week, three million cases were confirmed in the world, the lowest number so far this year, and 8,882 deaths, the second lowest in 2022.

The international health emergency was declared on January 30, 2020, when cases had already been registered in all regions of the planet, and since then the committee has met quarterly to monitor the global situation.

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In recent months the WHO He has insisted that his guard should not be lowered despite the proliferation of mild cases, since there is still a risk that, as infections continue, the coronavirus could evolve into more lethal variants.

Source: Elcomercio

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