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May 5, 2023 · 05 May 2023. WHO declares end to COVID-19’s emergency phase. The pandemic has been on a “downward trend”, but the risk of new variants remains, says WHO director-general. By. Mariana Lenharo....
- A Weighty Term
- An Extraordinary Event
- An Inflection Point
The granting and lifting of a PHEIC matters on a global and national scale because it triggers actions and redirects resources worldwide. The WHO emergency status compels the agency’s member nations to report cases of infection, for instance. In particular, how the WHO labels the outbreak is important as a cue for the global community, Karim says. ...
The WHO first declared COVID-19 a PHEIC in January 2020. The emergency status is revisited every three months, when a committee of experts discusses the situation and then makes a recommendation. The next opportunity for the WHO to lift the designation will come in April — and some say that should be the end of it. A PHEIC is defined by the WHO’s b...
The situation is made more complex by the term ‘pandemic’. This is legally and operationally distinct from PHEIC, but is often used interchangeably with it to describe the state of the COVID-19 outbreak. The WHO does not have the mandate or power to declare the start or end of a pandemic, because, unlike PHEIC, the term is not a category in the IHR...
Sep 15, 2021 · This article includes updated perspectives of McKinsey experts on when the coronavirus pandemic will end based on the latest data. Among high-income countries, cases caused by the Delta variant reversed the transition toward normalcy first in the UK and then across the world.
Oct 11, 2022 · October 11, 2022 9 min read. Harvard faculty on changes to views on school, work, winter’s likely surge, danger of ‘lethal inflexibility’. Public health officials agree that the end of the pandemic is in sight but not here yet. So where does it leave educators, top business executives, and public health experts?
May 8, 2023 · May 7, 202311:43 PM PDTUpdated a year ago. LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its...
Sep 14, 2022 · 14 September 2022 Health. As the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 plunged to its lowest since March 2020, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the...
Jul 10, 2021 · The U.S. declared the coronavirus a public health emergency in January 2020. After many months in which the U.S. led the world in coronavirus cases, the virus is now under much better control due...
