WHO seeks when and how to report Covid crisis

Geneva, March 14, 2022:

Health professionals at the World Health Organization have begun discussing how and when to end the global Covid-19 crisis, finding a more important solution more than two years later. the onset of the disease.

The WHO said it did not consider the statement. While cases have dropped in many places, deaths have risen in Hong Kong, and this week China reported more than 1,000 new cases every day for the first time in two years.

In particular, the discussions at the Geneva conference are looking at the conditions under which the public health promotion by January 30, 2020, is over. It’s not just an important signal, it will add time to the rollback of public health policies.

“The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Covid-19 is reviewing the requirements required to report a public health emergency related to global warming,” the agency said in a statement. email. “Right now, we’re not there.”

Many nations around the world have already made efforts to return to normal personal habits, leave masking and quarantine guides, and remove borders for travel. However, many countries in Asia show higher shipping levels, and in Germany cases are returned close to historical levels. There were more than 10 million Covid cases and 52,000 deaths in the past week, the WHO said.

The researchers said that even if Covid-19 cases dropped to low levels, the disease could cause thousands of deaths each year, unlike other similar diseases. with malaria and malaria. And it is impossible to see the coming of new and terrible things.

WHO consultations could have implications for pharmaceutical manufacturers such as Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co. who agreed to allow regular competition in their Covid care until the disease was cured. The vaccine manufacturers with AstraZeneca Plc said they will keep the prices for their products until the disease is over, without explaining what the benchmark will be.

The WHO has been vigilant in the past to call for an end to public health problems and diseases. According to the report, the disaster will be decided by CEO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus after consultation with experts.

Many countries don’t just rely on WHO’s guidance, said David Heymann, a former WHO and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist who teaches WHO about disease.

“They don’t leave the WHO, but they rely heavily on local and local scientific advisory groups,” Heymann said in an interview. The work of these groups has grown since the days of the SARS outbreak when the WHO guidelines for travel and trade were strictly adhered to. Today, lands are better understood and viewed.

An important metric for countries considering leaving a crisis situation in the public, Heymann said, is the proportion of people who get certain antibodies to the disease from the flu, the disease. , or both. Researchers estimate that about 98% of the UK population is infected with the coronavirus to prevent serious illness, he said.

That’s not the same level of antibody resistance needed to achieve swine immunity, which would prevent the spread of the disease, he said. Immunity to the coronavirus cannot be seen in the general population because vaccines do not currently protect against the disease and patients do not protect against new infections of the disease, he said.

In the U.S., about 98% of the population lives in counties where masking requirements for indoor spaces are inadequate, according to the CDC. However, there is growing concern about the BA.2 species, an omicron compound that is widespread in other European countries. ET HealthWorld