Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-Common of the World Well being Group (WHO), speaks throughout a information convention in Geneva, Switzerland, December 20, 2021.
Denis Balibouse | Reuters
The unfold of Covid-19 is not a world public well being emergency, the World Well being Group declared on Friday.
“For greater than a yr, the pandemic has been on a downward development with inhabitants immunity rising from vaccination and an infection, mortality lowering, and the strain on well being methods, easing,” WHO Director-Common Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated at a press convention in Geneva.
“This development has allowed most international locations to return to life as we knew it earlier than Covid-19,” Tedros stated.
“It is due to this fact with nice hope that I declared Covid-19 over as a world well being emergency,” he stated.
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