The World Health Organization says it is confident that covid-19 will no longer be a public health emergency of international concern, its highest level of alert, at some point this year
, usually taken to mean that an illness is spreading in multiple countries, although there is no universally agreed definition.
While the coronavirus is still widely circulating, it is now less likely to cause serious illness, as most people have had it at least once, many have been vaccinated multiple times and the current omicron variants are less virulent than some past variants. “It’s very pleasing to see that, for the first time, the weekly number of reported deaths in the past four weeks has been lower than when we first used the word ‘pandemic’ three years ago,” said Ghebreyesus. “I’m confident that, this year, we will be able to say that covid-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern. We are not there yet.”Get the most essential health and fitness news in your inbox every Saturday.
“We are on a positive trajectory,” said Ryan. “The virus will represent less and less of a threat to society, where surges in virus transmission would not be associated with higher rates of hospital admission,” said Ryan. “We’ve begun to see that in the last six months, where a surge in infection has not been associated with sustained pressure on the health system, because rates of vaccination are high enough.
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