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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Gregory Health editor

Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, says WHO

A man walks past posters advertising a Covid test centre in Berlin's Kreuzberg district during the pandemic.
A man walks past posters advertising a Covid test centre in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district during the pandemic. Photograph: David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images

The Covid-19 pandemic, which has sickened or killed almost 800 million people over three years, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the head of the World Health Organization has said.

The WHO first gave Covid its highest level of alert on 30 January 2020, and its panel has continued to apply the label at meetings held every three months.

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