Covid-19 Emergency Committee will discuss next month the criteria for declaring an end to the Covid-19 emergency. "We're hopeful that at some point next year, we will be able to say that Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency," he said, adding that however, SARS-CoV-2 ...
Nonetheless, the relatively low levels of immunity among the population, including the elderly, make the endgame for this approach less clear than it is for countries that have shifted away from a zero-COVID-19 strategy. In the meantime, the current approach appears to have had substantial ...
Concerns have been expressed that the dominant Omicron variant of the COVID virus could generate a new mutant as it spreads in China. According to Dr Jasper Chan, a clinical associate professor at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, the...
The Covid pandemic will 'go on for a year longer than it needs to' because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.世界卫生组织称，由于“贫穷国家未获得所需疫苗”，新冠疫情将“不可避免地拖长一年”。Dr Bruce Aylward, senior leader at...
China says its focus of COVID-19 management has shifted from "infection prevention" to "health protection" and "severe symptoms prevention." The announcement was made after the country says it will downgrade management of the virus from Class A to Class B, a major shift in ...
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WHO: 'Premature,' 'Unrealistic' COVID-19 Will End Soon More The Associated Press FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, Michael Ryan, left, Executive Director of WHO's Health Emergencies programme, next to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, right, Director General of the World Health...
A recent study in the medical journal The Lancet listed Spain as having one of the highest transmission rates of COVID-19 in Europe. A recent record surge in infections was linked to social gatherings of young people and as 1.4 million students prepare to return to university ac...
COVID-19 vaccines: the pandemic will not end overnightdoi:10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30226-3The Lancet MicrobeThe Lancet Microbe
Experts explain why it's so difficult to predict when the coronavirus pandemic will be over, when a COVID-19 vaccine will be ready and distributed, and more.