The emergency committee assembly, chaired by French physician Didier Houssin, was scheduled to start at midday (1000 GMT) and was resulting from final all afternoon. (File picture/Reuters)
The panel’s fifteenth assembly on the disaster comes greater than three years after it first sounded the WHO’s highest emergency alarm as what was then known as the novel coronavirus started spreading outdoors China
The World Health Organization’s emergency committee is assembly Thursday to debate if Covid-19 continues to be a world well being emergency.
The panel’s fifteenth assembly on the disaster comes greater than three years after it first sounded the WHO’s highest emergency alarm as what was then known as the novel coronavirus started spreading outdoors China.
The unbiased committee meets each three months to debate the pandemic and studies to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who then decides whether or not it stays a global emergency.
The emergency committee assembly, chaired by French physician Didier Houssin, was scheduled to start at midday (1000 GMT) and was resulting from final all afternoon, though it might take days earlier than the result is revealed.
It stays unclear which means the consultants will lean, however there have not too long ago been some indications that the United Nations’ well being company is open to declaring an finish to the emergency.
On Wednesday, the WHO revealed a brand new technique for combating Covid-19 over the subsequent two years through which Tedros mentioned the intention was “to help international locations as they transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained COVID-19 illness prevention, management and administration”.
And last week, the WHO said Covid-19 deaths had dropped by 95 percent since the start of the year, although it warned the virus was still on the move.
The positive trend may meanwhile not be enough to spur the emergency committee to advise stripping the Covid crisis of its status as a so-called public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) — the WHO’s highest level of alert.
The Covid numbers have been falling for a while, but when the committee last met in January, it concluded the PHEIC tag was still merited.
Though declaring a PHEIC is the internationally agreed mechanism for triggering a global response to such outbreaks, it was only after Tedros described the worsening Covid situation as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, that many countries woke up to the danger.
Since the beginning, more than 765 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been reported to the WHO from around the world, including nearly seven million deaths.
But the UN health agency always stresses that the true numbers are believed to be far higher.
Meanwhile, more than 13.3 billion vaccine doses have been administered.
In addition to the Covid crisis, two other WHO-declared PHEICs are currently ongoing — one on poliovirus, first declared in May 2014, and the other on mpox, previously called monkeypox, declared in July last year.
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