fend of a nightmare, return to life as we knew it before the Covid pandemic. That’s what we hope for everyone. Today the WHO, World Health Organization Established in 1948 in Geneva, the United Nations agency specializing in health issues to which 194 Member States from around the world adhere, has made the declaration that the whole world has been waiting for since 2020. Theemergency from Covid is over. However, experts point out that the precautions for fragile people remain valid for preventing the infection that continues to circulate and transform itself into variants, but which can be managed better thanks to vaccines.
The Covid emergency is over
“For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend, with population immunity increasing due to vaccination and infection mortality decreasing and pressure on healthcare systems easing.
This trend has allowed most countries to going back to life as we knew it before COVID 19. Over the past year, the emergency committee and WHO. they carefully analyzed the data and evaluated when the time would be right to lower the alarm level. Yesterday the emergency committee met for the fifteenth time and recommended me to declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern», said a few minutes ago the director general of the World Health Organization Tedros Ghebreyesus at the press conference.
A moment to celebrate
The state of international health emergency was declared on January 30, 2020. The WHO Technical Committee, said the director general Tedros Ghrebreyesus, «recommended the end of the state of emergency and I accepted the indication. This is a moment to celebrate – Ghebreyesus said – but it is also a moment to reflect. The idea of the potential threat of other pandemics must remain ».
After Covid we have more tools to protect ourselves
“We now have tools and technologies to prepare for pandemics better and recognize them sooner, but globally a lack of coordination could undermine those tools. Lives have been lost that weren’t meant to be lost, we promise our children and grandchildren that we will never make the same mistakes again. Since the beginning of the pandemic, outside China – added the WHO director general – there were about 100 cases of Covid-19 and there were no reported deaths. In the three years since that moment the world has turned upside down: about 7 million deaths have been reported by WHO, but we know that the estimate is many times greater, equal to at least 20 million deaths.
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