3 years after declaring the disease a health emergency of global proportions, the World Health Organization decided, on Monday, to maintain the maximum state of emergency regarding the Covid-19 epidemic.
The Director-General of the Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, followed the recommendations of the Emergency Committee on Covid-19, which is a committee of experts that met, Friday, for the fourteenth time, according to a statement.
Emergency downgrade?!
The meeting also came after Ghebreyesus had reported that he considered it premature to reduce the emergency level.
This came after international experts began, on Friday, discussing the possibility of lifting the international public health emergency that had been declared by the World Health Organization due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus, which causes Covid-19 disease.
A spokeswoman for the organization said that the meeting of the International Health Regulations COVID-19 Emergency Committee, which was held online, initially focused on the latest data on the pandemic, and then was followed by talks.
High mortality
According to World Health Organization data, more than 170,000 people have died worldwide since the beginning of last December, after they were infected with the Corona virus.
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Last week, the organization reported nearly 40,000 deaths from the disease.
At the same time, the World Health Organization has noted many effective tools against the virus, including vaccines, medicines, face masks and social distancing.
