The global emergency status of the Covid-19 pandemic could be downgraded by experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
WHO has unveiled its new strategy to combat the Coronavirus (Covid-19) to help countries move from emergency management of the pandemic to prevention and control of it.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom said when presenting his new strategy that the previous plan, released in 2022, outlined two strategic objectives:
- To reduce the circulation of SARS-CoV-2
- To diagnose and treat coronavirus to reduce mortality, morbidity and long-term sequelae.
End of Covid-19 emergency?
He said: “This strategy retains those two objectives, and adds a third: to support countries as they transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained Covid-19 disease prevention, control and management”.
The WHO’s Covid-19 Emergency Committee is scheduled to meet on Thursday, May 4 to decide whether the pandemic is still serious enough to maintain the maximum alert level announced on January 30, 2020.
Many countries around the world are easing coronavirus regulations, including changes to travel guidelines.
In February, the US House of Representatives voted to lift the requirement that most foreign air travellers be vaccinated against the virus, one of the few remaining pandemic travel restrictions still in place.
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