“WHO declares official end of Covid-19 pandemic after 3 years”

Three years later, the WHO has decreed the official end of the pandemic. So it has been announced Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusdirector general of the World Health Organization (WHO), declaring the end of the global health emergency by Covid-19.

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the state of pandemic due to the outbreak of Covid-19, after the exponential growth of cases worldwide. However, some time before, on January 30, 2020, the agency had already declared the Covid disease an international public health emergency after it emerged in China.

“Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the fifteenth time and recommended that I declare the end of the public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice,” she said.

“It has been a decision taken with caution. I will not hesitate to declare the emergency again if the situation changes,” Tedros said.

The decision to abandon the international emergency due to Covid comes after a large part of the experts considered the health crisis caused by the coronavirus to have been resolved. In Spain, the only sanitary measure of the pandemic is the use of masks in hospitals and pharmacies, all other measures have disappeared.

«The current situation of covid-19, both in Spain and in other countries, means that the lifting of the declaration of PHEIC by the WHO Emergency Committee should not affect the actions and policies that are currently being implemented. being carried out in the different countries”, assures Óscar Zurriaga of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology in statements has Science Media Center Spain. “This does not mean that the SARS-Cov2 virus or the disease is over. For this reason, it is convenient to communicate to the public that the disease is still present and that, in certain circumstances (for example, when you have symptoms or when you are in contact with especially vulnerable people), precautionary measures must continue to be maintained to prevent its transmission. , especially vulnerable people, “he adds.