World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed optimism regarding the development of the covid-19 pandemic during the first press conference of 2023. He assured that “If we work properly, this will be the year the public emergency officially ends.”
Geneva, January 4, 2023.- “We are now entering the fourth year of the pandemic with a world that is in a much better situation than a few years ago, thanks to clinical care and the management of vaccines and treatments. “, declared this Wednesday the Ethiopian expert.
“For most of 2022, COVID has waned, vaccination has increased, and sustained progress has been made in access to vaccines by low- and middle-income countries that had been overlooked in 2021 due to vaccine nationalism” , he added.
Tedros recalled that last week, the WHO approved for the first time two generic drugs once morest covid (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir), produced by an Indian pharmaceutical company, which will increase the access of less developed countries to treatments.
The head of the WHO insisted that despite the progress covid-19 remains a dangerous virus for our health, our economies and our societies”, since every week around 10,000 people continue to die worldwide due to this disease.
The coronavirus was declared an international emergency on January 30, 2020 (even before the disease was baptized) and every three months a WHO emergency committee meets to review this situation, which for now has been maintained due to the high number of cases still in all regions of the planet.
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