I know that’s a terrible thought but that is the history of pandemics.” “In most cases, pandemics truly end when the next pandemic begins. “So, we fully expect that this virus will continue to transmit, but this is the history of pandemics,” Ryan said. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme. “There’s still a public health threat out there, and we all see that every day in terms of the evolution of this virus, in terms of its global presence, its continued evolution and continued vulnerabilities in our communities, both societal vulnerabilities, age vulnerabilities, protection vulnerabilities, and many other things,” said Dr. The United States is set to let its Covid-19 public health emergency end on May 11.Ĭovid-19 continues to spread, the virus is evolving and remains a global health threat, but at a lower level of concern, according to WHO officials. Countries use them to marshal resources and waive rules in order to ease a crisis. Each country, in turn, declares its own public health emergency – declarations that carry legal weight. The organization declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020, about six weeks before characterizing it as a pandemic.Ī PHEIC creates an agreement between countries to abide by WHO’s recommendations for managing the emergency. “Yesterday, the emergency committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. “This trend has allowed most countries to return to life as we knew it before Covid-19,” Tedros said. The way the US government tracks Covid-19 is about to change Doctor Scott Harris, Alabama's State Health Officer, discusses his state's vaccination data in his office on June 29, 2021, in Montgomery, Alabama.
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