May 6, 2023

WHO declares COVID crisis over

COVID is no longer a global health emergency. That's according to World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who said today that the pandemic had been on a "downward trend" for a year, "allowing most countries to return to life as we knew it before," Axios' Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath writes.

 "This virus is here to stay," Tedros said. "It is still killing, and it's still changing. The risk remains of new variants emerging that cause new surges in cases and deaths."

 "COVID has changed the world, and it has changed us. And that's the way it should be," Tedros added. If we go back to how things were before COVID-19, we will have failed to learn our lessons, and failed our future generations."


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