“Global Covid-19 Deaths Drop by 95%: WHO Expects End of Health Emergency in May with Mutations Still Possible”

If the Covid-19 virus is still circulating, deaths linked to the disease have dropped by 95% worldwide since January.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the WHO, is positive about the pandemic, moreover, he hopes to declare in May -at the next quarterly meeting of theWHO on the subject of Covid-, the end of the global health emergency.

The end of the global health emergency in May?

However, the virus is still circulating but its contamination and its dangerousness have practically disappeared. Despite everything, we must remain vigilant since one in ten infections results in a “long Covid”, notes the WHO official. Patients affected by this “long Covid” most often have long-term care and live in difficulty.

One in ten infections results in a “long Covid”

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus nevertheless clarified that “several countries are seeing a resurgence of the disease and, in the last four weeks, 14,000 people have succumbed to this disease”.

Different mutations still possible to date

The WHO now expects the coronavirus to move into a ‘low incidence phase with potential peaks due to these different mutations still possible to date’.

We won’t totally eliminate it

For the WHO official, SARS-CoV-2 will stay in our lives for a long time: “We will not eliminate it and the Covid virus will join the pantheon of respiratory viruses, like the flu viruses”.

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