The health secretary claimed last week that the World Health Organisation has announced the Covid-19 pandemic is “officially over”. That’s not correct. The WHO has said Covid is no longer a global emergency, but that the pandemic is still ongoing.
“However, that does not mean Covid-19 is over as a global health threat.”criteria for PHEICs
The committee said that “although SARS-CoV-2 has been and will continue circulating widely and evolving, it is no longer an unusual or unexpected event”. Dr Ghebreyesus did not explicitly address the question of whether Covid remained a pandemic in his comments, but the WHO referred in aon the WHO website says that while Covid-19 no longer fits the definition of a PHEIC, this “does not mean the pandemic itself is over, but the global emergency it has caused is, for now”.
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