WHO meeting to decide on COVID emergency set for Jan. 27
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[January 10, 2023]
GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization committee will
meet on Jan. 27 to consider whether the COVID-19 pandemic still
represents a global emergency, a spokesperson said on Tuesday, three
years after it was first declared.
WHO spokesperson Carla Drysdale confirmed the timing of the meeting at a
Geneva press briefing. The Emergency Committee advises WHO Director
General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who makes the ultimate call on
whether an outbreak represents a so-called Public Health Emergency of
International Concern which is the U.N. agency's highest level of alert.
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The World Health Organization logo is
pictured at the entrance of the WHO building, in Geneva,
Switzerland, December 20, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2019/Sep/05/images/ads/current/stclara_lda_SPONSOR_090519.png) Several leading scientists and WHO
advisers say it may be too early to declare the end of the COVID-19
pandemic emergency phase because of high levels of infections in
China which dismantled its zero-COVID policy last month.
(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Madeline Chambers)
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