This Friday, the COVID-19 International Health Regulations Emergency Committee will meet for the fourteenth time since the disease was declared a public health emergency of international concern.
It was January 2020 when the World Health Organization (WHO) made the decision following the recommendation of the committee before the appearance of the disease that registered less than 10,000 cases, the majority in China.
“Our greatest concern is the possibility of the virus spreading to countries with more fragile health systems (…) It does not mean distrust of China,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on that occasion.
After that, two months later, the WHO decided to classify it as a pandemic when the virus has already reached more than 100 countries.
Before the appointment this Friday, the head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, suggested that the emergency phase of the pandemic has not yet ended, and mentioned the more than 170,000 deaths caused by the disease worldwide in the two last months.
“I remain very concerned about the situation in many countries and the increasing number of deaths,” he told a news conference on Tuesday.
The 14th meeting of the crisis committee comes almost three years after the WHO issued its highest level of alarm for the new coronavirus discovered in China.
The committee, made up of independent experts, meets every three months to assess the pandemic situation and reports its considerations to Tedros. The conclusions of this Friday’s meeting will be known in the coming days. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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