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The director of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated on Monday that Covid-19 remains to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

In a written statement, Tedros Ghebreyesus stated, “The WHO Director-General concurs with the opinion made by the Committee regarding the current Covid-19 epidemic and considers that the incident continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern.”

The WHO director made the observation following the weekend meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee. This week marks the third anniversary of Covid-19’s designation as a PHEIC in January 2020.

While the situation is better than it was at the height of the Omicron transmission one year ago, Tedros noted that more than 170,000 deaths associated with Covid-19 had been documented worldwide over the past eight weeks.

Additionally, worldwide genetic sequencing and surveillance have decreased, making it more challenging to track existing variants and find new ones.

According to the WHO director, health systems are currently having difficulty treating patients with Covid-19, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, a lack of health professionals, and weariness.

Since the end of January 2022, the WHO has confirmed nearly 753 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 6.9 million linked deaths globally.

Vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics are still essential.

In order to prevent serious illness, save lives, and relieve pressure on the world’s health systems and medical personnel, vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics have remained essential.

“Yet, in too many countries, the Covid-19 response remains crippled, unable to deliver these tools to the populations most in need, older people and health workers,” added Tedros.

He added that the WHO advises adequately targeted risk-based public health and social actions and that governments should continue to be alert, report surveillance and genome sequencing data.

In order to reduce serious illness and fatalities, health officials should immunize the people most at risk as necessary.

According to Tedros, they should engage communities and conduct routine risk communication to better the understanding and use of countermeasures.

He claimed that according to information provided to the WHO committee, 13.1 billion doses of the Covid-19 vaccine had been delivered globally, with 89% of medical personnel and 81% of older persons (those over 60) having finished the first series.

Effective medicinal countermeasures have also advanced significantly, according to Tedros.

These include the ability to conduct genomic epidemiology and sequencing on a global scale, as well as knowledge on how to control the infodemic in the new informational ecology, which includes social media platforms.

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