The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus DENIS BALIBOUSE | REUTERS
The expert team concludes that the virus will remain a permanently established pathogen in humans and animals for the future, and therefore requires long-term public health action.
30 ene 2023 . Updated at 6:37 p.m.
The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, made up of international experts who provide technical advice to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO)— agreed at a meeting held on Friday, January 27, to continue considering the covid-19 like a public health emergency of international importance. Although the group of specialists had recognized that the pandemic could be approaching a tipping point, He has no doubt that this virus will remain a permanently established pathogen in humans and animals for the future. He believes, therefore, that it is critically needed long-term public health action.
“While elimination of this virus from human and animal reservoirs is highly unlikely, mitigating its devastating impact on morbidity and mortality is feasible and it must continue to be a priority objective”, the organization stressed when making its decision public, advising the World Health Organization to develop a proposal of alternative mechanisms to maintain the “global and national” approach on coronavirus and, in turn, provide a assessment regarding regulatory implications for develop and license vaccines, diagnostics and therapies if this emergency were to end in the coming months.
In this sense, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, thanked the IHR for having “mitigated” the possible negative consequences of not considering the coronavirus as a major public health emergency. international.
