WHO (World Health Organization) hopes that the covid-19 epidemic can be ended by 2023. But he warns that the virus will not go away and that governments and societies will have to live with the new disease that has killed millions of people worldwide. world since 2020.
WHO director Tedros Ghebreyesus announced at a press conference in Geneva this Wednesday that the party’s expert committee will meet in January to determine what criteria will be used to define how the end of the international emergency will be declared.
Among the criteria, experts will evaluate the behavior of the virus, as well as its impact on society and health systems.
The warning was issued by WHO at the end of January 2020 and transformed the planet in the years that followed. “We expect the state of emergency to end in 2023,” said Tedros.
What happened to the death rate? Although many protective measures have been abandoned by dozens of governments, WHO still insists that between 8,000 and 10,000 people around the world die from covid-19 each week. At the peak of the crisis, more than 50,000 people were dying every seven days.
Despite WHO’s hope, the party clearly states that the virus “will not go away”. According to Tedros, governments will have to learn to live with the disease. The agency’s director said, “The virus is here to stay. The real question is how to manage it. We have the tools and we know it better. But we have more population immunity due to vaccination or contamination.” .
It is in our hands to end the epidemic,” he said. According to him, the world should focus on the most vulnerable groups, especially the elderly.
For WHO technical director Maria van Kerkhove, the world is starting its fourth year with the realization that the virus will not go away.
And vaccines? According to WHO, one of the challenges is still vaccination. In the world’s 40 poorest countries, only one in five people were vaccinated and the worldwide dose distribution targets were not met.
Health systems need to be prepared to deal with covid-19 as part of their ongoing service strategy, said Mike Ryan, WHO director of operations. History shows that the virus that creates a pandemic will only disappear with a new virus or a new pandemic,” he said.
source: Noticias
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