He covid It ceases to be an international emergency as of May 5. This has been announced by the World Health Organization (WHO). Almost 1,200 days (three years and three months) have had to pass for the world to return to the state prior to the alarm decreed by the high body.

The announcement was made by the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesuswho has expressed that “it has been a decision taken with caution” and has warned that will not hesitate to “re-declare the emergency if the situation changes”.

“Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the fifteenth time and recommended that I declare the end of the public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice,” he said.

In more than three years, the coronavirus has affected at least 765 million people and has caused the death of about 20 million. Since the beginning of the year, the number of covid infections and reported deaths has been decreasing globally: in the last week of April, the WHO confirmed 630,000 cases worldwide and 3,500 deaths, when in January there were more than 1.3 million of positives and the 14,000 deaths, partly due to the wave in China.