The Covid-19 emergency is over after at least 20mn deaths, the World Health Organization said on Friday, ending a designation in place for more than three years since the novel coronavirus began sweeping across the world.
The UN body said Covid-19 was no longer a “public health emergency of international concern”, or PHEIC — the highest possible status under international health regulations, which was first applied to the disease in January 2020.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was “with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency”.
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