{"id":1925482,"date":"2023-05-06T02:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T06:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-says-covid-no-longer-global-health-emergency\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T02:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T06:29:32","slug":"who-says-covid-no-longer-global-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-says-covid-no-longer-global-health-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID no longer a global health emergency, says WHO."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwho-says-covid-no-longer-global-health-emergency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1925482&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>WHO Declares End to COVID-19 Global Health Emergency<\/h2>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that COVID-19 no longer represents a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-covid-19-flip-flops-a-timeline\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s COVID-19 Flip-Flops: A Timeline\">global health emergency<\/a>. This is a significant step towards the end of the pandemic that has disrupted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-fauci-new-study-finds-closing-schools-in-response-to-covid-19-delayed-herd-immunity-and-will-increase-overall-deaths\/\" title=\"FIRE FAUCI: New Study Finds Closing Schools In Response to COVID-19 Delayed Herd Immunity and Will Increase Overall Deaths\">global economy<\/a>, ravaged communities, and claimed the lives of over 6.9 million people.<\/p>\n<h3>Hope for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated, &#8220;It&#8217;s therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency.&#8221; The WHO&#8217;s emergency committee first declared COVID-19 as its highest level of alert more than three years ago, on January 30, 2020. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-says-covid-no-longer-global-health-emergency\/\" title=\"COVID no longer a global health emergency, says WHO.\">status helped focus international attention<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-newsom-lifts-calif-lockdown-orders-amid-mounting-backlash\/\" title=\"Gov. Newsom lifts Calif. lockdown orders amid mounting backlash\">health threat<\/a> and bolstered collaboration on vaccines and treatments.<\/p>\n<h3>Progress Made<\/h3>\n<p>Lifting the global health emergency status is a sign of the progress the world has made in these areas. However, COVID-19 is here to stay, the WHO has said, even if it no longer represents an emergency. The death rate has slowed from a peak of over 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 in the week to April 24, according to WHO data.<\/p>\n<h3>Continued Threat<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the progress made, Ghebreyesus emphasized that COVID-19 is not over as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-usaid-administrator-becomes-global-covid-19-response-coordinator\/\" title=\"Former USAID administrator becomes global COVID-19 response coordinator\">global health threat<\/a>. The WHO does not declare the beginning or end of pandemics, although it did start using the term for COVID-19 in March 2020.<\/p>\n<h3>Hope for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Last year, U.S. President Joe Biden declared the pandemic over. Like a number of other countries, the world&#8217;s biggest economy has begun dismantling its domestic state of emergency for COVID-19, meaning it will stop paying for things like vaccines.<\/p>\n<h3>Reporting<\/h3>\n<p>Reporting by Jennifer Rigby in London, Gabrielle T\u00e9trault-Farbe in Geneva, Bhanvi Satija and Raghav Mahobe in Bengaluru; Editing by Josephine Mason and Shinjini Ganguli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters)\u2014COVID-19 no longer represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Friday, a major step towards the end of the pandemic that has killed more than 6.9 million people, disrupted the global economy and ravaged communities. &#8220;Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1925483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[8994,4127,4469,5179,4964],"class_list":["post-1925482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-who","tag-covid","tag-emergency","tag-global","tag-health"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}