For the first time, the weekly number of reported deaths is lower than when the WHO first used the word “pandemic”.
The World Health Organization will be able to announce the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in the world by the end of 2023. This date was named by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Today, for the first time, fewer people died from the coronavirus than on the day when the WHO first used the word “pandemic” in relation to the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the press service of the organization said.
“I am sure that at some point this year we will be able to say that COVID-19 has ended as a public health emergency of international concern and as a pandemic,” Gebreisus said.
He also reminded that on March 11
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