The global COVID-19 health emergency is now over, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Specifically, the WHO says that "COVID-19 is now an established and ongoing health issue which no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern."
This comes more than three years after the organization first declared that the outbreak of the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 constituted a public health emergency of international concern. Since the outbreak was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, it is estimated that the virus has infected 765 million people and killed nearly 7 million of them. More than 13.3 billion doses of various COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, covering 89 percent of health workers and 82 percent of adults over 60 years of age.
