The WHO maintains the maximum alert level for the covid-19 pandemic

The World Health Organization (WHO) decided on Friday to maintain the maximum alert level for the covid-19 pandemic, exactly three years after declaring the disease an international public health emergency.

The director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, followed the recommendations of the emergency committee on covid-19, made up of experts, who met this Friday, according to a statement.

The committee declared the covid-19 epidemic a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020.at a time when no deaths had yet been registered out of just 100 cases outside of China.

Dr. Tedros had indicated that he considered raising the highest alert level premature.

“Although I don’t want to preempt the opinion of the emergency committee, I remain very concerned about the situation in many countries and the growing number of deaths”, he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.

The disease has caused 170,000 deaths in the last two months.

According to WHO figures, and since its emergence at the end of 2019, covid-19 has officially caused 6,804,491 deaths as of January 27, although the organization and experts agree that the number of deaths is much higher. high. (YO)