![]() ![]() He warned earlier this week that he remains concerned about the impact of the virus, noting there were 170,000 deaths from COVID-19 reported around the world in the last two months. ![]() Tedros will make the final call Monday based on the advice the committee gives him. ![]() The WHO's emergency committee, which was struck in 2020 when COVID-19 first emerged as a global health threat, voted Friday on whether to maintain the formal designation of a public health emergency. That includes continued surveillance of cases, particularly severe illness and death, and vaccination campaigns. She said the WHO discussion is important but COVID-19 monitoring and public health responses are not going to end. COVID-19 Brief newsletter: Sign up for an informed guide on the pandemic.Theresa Tam said in her most recent COVID-19 update. "In Canada, we're already doing what we need to do," chief public health officer Dr. It will also not do much to change Canada's approach. On Monday, exactly three years from the day he declared COVID-19 to be a global public health emergency, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will decide whether to call it off.īut declaring an end to the "public health emergency of international concern" would not mean COVID-19 is no longer a threat. ![]()
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