{"id":1925810,"date":"2023-05-06T18:12:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T22:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-says-covid-pandemic-no-longer-a-global-emergency\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T18:14:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T22:14:51","slug":"who-says-covid-pandemic-no-longer-a-global-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-says-covid-pandemic-no-longer-a-global-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID pandemic no longer a global 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-pandemic-no-longer-a-global-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=1925810&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 COVID-19 No Longer a Global Emergency<\/h2>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency. The deadly virus was declared a global emergency over three years ago, but for the last year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend. WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that \u201clife has been allowed to return to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Lessons Learned from COVID-19<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 has been so much more than a health crisis, disrupting economies, travel, shattering businesses and plunging millions into poverty,\u201d Ghebreyesus said in a press conference on Friday. \u201cTherefore, with great hope, I declare COVID-19 over as 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>,\u201d he added. However, Ghebreyesus went on to say that the public shouldn\u2019t forget the extensive damage from COVID. \u201cThe painful lessons we have learned cannot go to waste,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe owe it to those we have lost to liberate those investments, to build on those capacities, to learn from those lessons and make sure that suffering leads to lasting change.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Risk of New Variants and Future Emergencies<\/h3>\n<p>Ghebreyesus also warned that the risk of new variants still remains and there\u2019s a risk of another global health emergency being declared again if there is a significant rise in COVID-19 cases or deaths. \u201cThat does not mean COVID-19 is 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>,\u201d Tedros said, adding he wouldn\u2019t hesitate to reconvene experts to reassess the situation should COVID-19 \u201cput our world in peril.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Impact of COVID-19<\/h3>\n<p>WHO first declared COVID-19 a global emergency on Jan. 30, 2020. At the time, there were less than 10,000 cases and most of them were in China. Ghebreyesus also noted that 7 million deaths were officially reported \u2014 but estimated the total was likely closer to 20 million. \u201cCOVID has changed our world and it has changed us,\u201d he said, acknowledging that \u201cCOVID-19 has left and continues to leave deep scars on our world.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Vaccine Progress<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s been an estimated 764 million cases of COVID-19 globally and about 5 billion people have received at least one dose of vaccine. Many other countries, including Germany, France and Britain, dropped many of their COVID mandates last year. The public health emergency declaration made regarding COVID-19 is set to expire on May 11 in the U.S. At its expiration, the wide-ranging measures to support the pandemic response, including vaccine mandates, will end.<\/p>\n<h3>Final Thoughts<\/h3>\n<p>While the declaration that COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency is a positive step, it\u2019s important to remember the impact the virus has had on the world and the potential for new variants to emerge. The lessons learned from this pandemic must be used to create lasting change and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-says-covid-pandemic-no-longer-a-global-emergency\/\" title=\"COVID pandemic no longer a global emergency, says WHO.\">prevent future global health emergencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency, World Health Organization confirmed on Friday. The deadly virus was declared a global emergency over three years ago, however for the last year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend. 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