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Prof Peter Collignon says care is still needed to protect the most vulnerable.

While the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the global emergency status for COVID-19, the virus remains harmful and China will continue to monitor it while increasing vaccinations among high-risk groups, a top Chinese health official said.

World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO’s new strategy to transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained COVID disease management.

The World Health Organisation first flagged Covid-19 as an international concern in January 2020.

Friday marked an end to the coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed at least 7 million people worldwide

Covid-19 no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Friday, lowering its alert level three years after the novel coronavirus began killing millions as it swept across the world.

Global cases and death rates are a fraction of what they were at the height of the pandemic

The director-general of World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, confirmed the news with an announcement of "great hope" on Friday, May 5, 2023.

Declaration a major step towards end of pandemic that has killed more than 6.9m people