The World Health Organization's emergency committee on COVID-19 met recently to discuss whether the pandemic still merits the highest level of global alert.
Tedros said the weekly death rate had dropped below 10,000 in October but had been rising again since the start of December, while the lifting of Covid restrictions in China had led to a spike in deaths. The independent committee meets every three months to discuss the pandemic and reports to Tedros, who then decides whether it remains an international emergency.The WHO director-general said vaccines, tests, and treatments had been critical in saving lives, preventing severe disease, and easing the pressure on health systems and medics.
And in terms of monitoring how the virus is evolving, surveillance and genetic sequencing have dropped sharply, making it harder to track the myriad variants and detect new ones in good time.
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