The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday stated that the COVID-19 pandemic is still an emergency—three years after it started spreading worldwide from China.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he hoped the world would transition from the emergency phase in 2023. But his United Nations-backed agency indicated that it’s not time yet.
“We remain hopeful that in the coming year, the world will transition to a new phase in which we reduce hospitalizations and deaths to the lowest possible level, and health systems are able to manage COVID-19 in an integrated and sustainable way,” Tedros said in a statement issued Monday. “We can’t control the virus, but we can do more to address the vulnerabilities in populations and health systems,” he said, while again pushing for vaccinations of “vulnerable” populations….