It’s not over, WHO aims to extend COVID-19 emergency
Date 14 Jan 2022 time 11:30
WHO aims for nearly two years of global public health emergency
website Daily Sabah Reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) is considering whether to extend the international public health emergency. After almost 2 years since the announcement due to the spread of COVID-19 This is the highest level of alert the World Health Organization can set.
Meanwhile, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there are now deaths worldwide from COVID-19. An average of about 50,000 per week, which is just too much. And there are still many people who have not received the first dose of vaccine.
Amid controversy over COVID-19 Can it be counted as an endemic disease or not? Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has advocated changing the definition of COVID-19 from “pandemic” to “endemic” as it has seen lower death rates.
But some of the experts included Maria van Kerrhof, WHO’s coronavirus expert, and Catherine Smallwood, a senior WHO regional official for Europe. In the end, covid-19 will become endemic but not now
Due to the spread of COVID-19 still full of uncertainty The virus continues to develop rapidly. It always presents new challenges, where defining endemic diseases requires stable and predictable transmission of infections such as influenza.
The World Health Organization has been criticized for being too late to declare a state of emergency. after the first case of infection in China was reported in 2019.
The World Health Organization declared a global public health emergency on Jan. 30, 2020, where the virus has spread to some 21 countries, bringing the total number of cases outside China to 100.
since then More than 308 million infections and nearly 5.5 million deaths have been reported worldwide.
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