WHO says COVID-19 is still a global health emergency
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[October 20, 2022]
(Reuters) - The World Health
Organization said on Wednesday that COVID-19 remains a global emergency,
nearly three years after it was first declared as one.
The WHO's emergency committee first made the declaration for COVID-19 on
Jan 30, 2020. Such a determination can help accelerate research, funding
and international public health measures to contain a disease.
The UN-agency has said in recent months that while cases are falling in
parts of the world, countries still need to maintain their vigilance and
push to get their most vulnerable populations vaccinated.
"Although the public perception is that the pandemic is over in some
parts of the world, it remains a public health event that continues to
adversely and strongly affect the health of the world's population," the
WHO's committee said.
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the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board
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![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2022/Oct/20/images/ads/current/humanesociety_sda022411.png) It noted that even though the number
of weekly deaths are the lowest since the pandemic began, they still
remain high compared to other viruses.
"This pandemic has surprised us before and very
well may again," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
told reporters.
(Reporting by Manas Mishra in Bengaluru and Jennifer Rigby in
London; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)
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