The World Health Organization said, on Wednesday, that it is too early to raise the maximum alert for the “Covid” crisis, with the epidemic remaining a global health emergency despite recent progress.
The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on COVID-19 met last week and concluded that the pandemic remains a public health emergency of international concern, which it declared in January 2020.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at the UN health agency headquarters in Geneva that he agreed with the committee’s advice. “The committee stressed the need to strengthen surveillance and expand access to tests, treatments and vaccines for those most at risk,” he said.
The World Health Organization first declared the outbreak of the Corona virus that causes “Covid 19” a health emergency on January 30, 2020, when it recorded fewer than 100 cases outside China and no deaths were reported.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organization has recorded more than 622 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, and more than 6.5 million deaths, although these numbers are believed to be an underestimate.
According to the organization’s data, 263,000 new cases of infection were recorded in the past 24 hours, in addition to 856 new deaths from “Covid-19” disease in the past week.
Source: Sputnik