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SAVE ARTICLES FOR LATER Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Share Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size 17 View all comments Advertisement London: The World Health Organisation on Friday declared an end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency, marking a major step toward the end of the pandemic that has killed more than 6.9 million people, disrupted the global economy and ravaged communities. The WHO’s Emergency Committee met on Thursday and recommended the UN-agency declare an end to the coronavirus crisis as a “public health emergency of international concern”, which has been in place for over three years. “It is therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, adding that the end of the emergency did not mean COVID was over as a global health threat. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), announced on Friday an end to the coronavirus pandemic. Credit: The WHO’s emergency committee first declared that COVID represented its highest level of alert on January 30, 2020. The status helps focus international attention on a global health threat, as well as bolstering collaboration on vaccines and treatments. The decision to end the global health emergency status was supported by a majority of the committee, said Didier Houssin, head of the agency’s COVID emergency committee. Lifting it is a sign of the progress the world has made fighting the disease, but COVID-19 is here to stay, the WHO has said, even if it no longer represents an emergency. Video Player is loading. 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Loading LONG COVID RESEARCH GETS FUNDING BOOST Replay LONG COVID RESEARCH GETS FUNDING BOOST Replay video Play video 2:59 LONG COVID RESEARCH GETS FUNDING BOOST Up Next RAPPER JAY-Z NAMED IN CIVIL RAPE SUIT Play video Long COVID research is getting a $50 million funding boost from the federal government. The death rate has slowed from a peak of more than 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 in the week to April 24, 2023, according to WHO data, reflecting widespread vaccination, availability of better treatments and a level of population immunity from prior infections. Ending the emergency could mean that international collaboration or funding efforts are also brought to an end or shift in focus, although many have already adapted as the pandemic has receded in different regions. Advertisement “The battle is not over. We still have weaknesses and those weaknesses that we still have in our system will be exposed by this virus or another virus. And it needs to be fixed,” said the WHO’s emergencies director Michael Ryan. RELATED ARTICLE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC THE SEARCH FOR LONG COVID TREATMENTS IS ALREADY CONTROVERSIAL The WHO does not declare the beginning or end of pandemics, although it did start using the term for COVID in March 2020. “In most cases, pandemics truly end when the next pandemic begins,” Ryan said. Last year, US President Joe Biden said the pandemic was over. Like a number of other countries, the world’s biggest economy has begun dismantling its domestic state of emergency for COVID, which officially ends May 11, meaning it will stop paying for vaccines and testing for many people and shift responsibility to the commercial market. Other regions have taken similar steps. The European Union said in April last year the emergency phase of the pandemic was over, and the WHO’s African head, Matshidiso Moeti, said in December it was time to move to routine management of COVID across the continent. RELATED ARTICLE EXPLAINER CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC WE’RE NOW IN THE ‘AGE OF PANDEMICS’. CAN WE STOP THE NEXT ONE? The WHO’s declaration comes just four months after China ended its prolonged severe COVID restrictions and was ravaged by a big surge in infections. In many parts of the world, testing has dwindled dramatically, and people have largely stopped wearing masks. In some countries, mask-wearing mandates have resumed during COVID outbreaks. The WHO published a plan this week advising countries on how to live with COVID long-term. Reuters Get a note direct from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here. Save Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later. 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