The World Health Organization (WHO) indicated this on Friday expects to lower the maximum alert level for covid-19 this year, estimate that could represent the epidemic soon a threat similar to that of the seasonal flu.
“We have come to a point of that we can take into account the COVID-19 in the same way that we consider the seasonal fluthat is, a threat to health, a virus that will continue to kill, but a virus that will not disrupt our society or our hospital systems,” Michael Ryan, WHO’s head of emergency response programs, told reporters.
Along with him, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that he was “delighted to see that for the first time the weekly number of deaths recorded in the past four weeks was lower than the number recorded when we first started three years once used the word ‘pandemic’”.
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“We are certainly in a much better position today than we were at any time during the pandemic.”, he analyzed.
Tedros was “convinced” that the The WHO may lower its maximum alert level this year.
On January 30, 2020, the UN agency adopted the “international public health emergency” due to covid-19, at a time when there were fewer than 100 positive cases and no deaths outside of China. Soon after, in March 2020, Tedros called the situation a pandemic.
“We are declaring a global health emergency to encourage countries to do so take more decisive action, but not all of them did”, he recalled Friday.
“Three years laternearly seven million deaths have been recorded as a result of covid-19although we know that the death toll from covid-19 is much higher,” he said.
Source: Eluniverso
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