World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Wednesday he “hope” it doesn’t cause a pandemic COVID-19 In declaring a global health emergency next year.
His remarks came in a statement to the media, with China abandoning its strict “zero Covid” policy and allowing it to coexist with the virus, raising fears it faces the world’s second-largest economy with a surge in Covid cases , according to Reuters.
The World Health Organization meets every few months to decide whether the new coronavirus, which emerged 3 years ago in Wuhan, China and killed 6.6 million people, still constitutes a “global public health emergency”.
It also aims to coordinate the global response and would open funding avenues for cooperation in sharing vaccines and treatments.
“Rapidly Rising” Cases
Interestingly, China’s Health Ministry announced earlier on Wednesday that it had become “impossible” to determine the extent of the current surge in Covid-19 infections, after detection checks were no longer mandatory in light of the pandemic. ‘weakening health restrictions in the country, according to AFP.
This new wave of infections particularly affects Beijing, which has 22 million inhabitants, with a rapid spread of infections that has not been seen in the capital since the outbreak of the epidemic.
Relax restrictions
It is indicated that China Last week, he eased tough health restrictions imposed to fight COVID-19 that were meant to reduce infections and deaths.
He also announced, in particular, the end of automatic quarantine in special centers for those who test positive and the cessation of large-scale and mandatory PCR testing campaigns.
As a result, the number of people undergoing examinations decreased, which led to an arithmetic decrease in the number of new infections, which gives a false impression of an improvement in the sanitary situation in the country.
