"COVID-19 has changed our world and it has changed us," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he declared an end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency. Produced by Xinhua Global Service You may like Enterprising, confident, down-to-earth -- Meet China's rising ge...
COVID-19 pandemicWORLD healthSARS-CoV-2 Omicron variantBecause today COVID-19 is not unusual or unexpected, it doesn't meet the "extraordinary event" criterion for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, 1 of 3 requirements for the designation. Medical News in Brief Now...
The WHO's emergency committee had recommended last year that the WHO begin preparing for when COVID-19 would no longer be a "public health emergency of international concern" underinternational law, laying out criteria and precautions for the shift. "This tool should not be overused because it ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 a global emergency, the highest level of alert, at the right time, says WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. #COVID19EXPLORE XINHUANET News China World Business Culture Edu Sports Sci Tech Health Entertainment Regions Asia ...
"Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the fifteenth time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (for COVID-19)," said Tedros, chief of the global health watchdog. "I have accepted that advice. It's therefore, with great ...
Advisers to the WHO expert committee on the pandemic's status told Reuters in December thatit was likely not the moment to end the emergency given the uncertainty over the wave of infections in China after it lifted its strict zero-COVIDmeasures at the end of 2022....
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The declaration was made because of the risk the virus poses to countries outside China, where limited person-to-person spread has occurred
WHO says COVID-19 still an international health emergency｜世卫：新冠疫情继续构成“国际关注的突发公共卫生事件”The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that COVID-19 is still a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the WHO's highest alert level.The announcement ...
Hundreds of thousands of essential medical workers and other limited groups of people considered at high risk of infection have been given the vaccine. "We've made it very clear that the COVID-19 vaccine we put into emergency use are safe," Zheng said. "Their safety can be ensured but th...