WHO: "The Covid emergency is over"

The World Health Organization has decided: Covid is no longer an international health emergency. WHO has removed the "maximum alert" on the pandemic which has caused, said director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the death of "twenty million people worldwide", almost three times the official toll of his organization, firm to 6.9 million victims. "This is a moment to celebrate but it is also a moment to reflect - added Ghebreyesus - The idea of the potential threat of other pandemics must remain. The World Health Organization still preaches caution and postpones the declaration of end of global emergency, especially due to the spread of the virus in China.

"Entering the fourth year of the pandemic, we are certainly in a better situation than a year ago, when the Omicron wave was at its peak and over 70,000 deaths a week were reported to WHO," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director WHO general. But, in recent weeks, the boom in infections in China has led to an increase in deaths, which should not be underestimated: "Since the beginning of December, deaths have started to increase again: about 40 thousand last week, more than half in China ". Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor of hygiene at the University of Milan, also underlines that there is no increase in infections linked to cases in the USA and China, but he preaches caution.