COVID no longer global health emergency, WHO declares
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19 at the WHO headquaters on March 6, 2020 in Geneva. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)
The World Health Organisation has declared that COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency.
The organisation on January 20, 2020, had declared COVID a public health emergency of international concern — the highest level of alarm under international law.
Speaking at a media conference on Friday, WHO director-general, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said the global health body’s international health regulations emergency committee made the decision at its 15th meeting on Thursday.
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