WHO lays out plan to emerge from COVID-19 pandemic’s emergency phase
It also called for improved detection of long COVID, to track and reduce long-term disability after the pandemic has ended.Countries also must continue to do diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2, which helps identify individual cases and guide community-level decision-making. Countries also must track virus evolution within animal populations, according to the WHO.
The report acknowledges that current vaccines are proving less effective than hoped in reducing the transmission of the Omicron variant, but says the target still remains relevant. As of the end of March 2022, more than 11 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally. But some 36 per cent of the global population have yet to receive a first dose.
“I think what is laid out is a reasonable, high-level, comprehensive approach,” said David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Whether it gets us out of the acute phase or not may depend more on the virus and on the implementation of this approach than the document itself. But I think the document is a good first start,” he said., is the WHO’s third, and will likely be its last, Tedros said. The WHO’s first report was released at the start of the pandemic, in February 2020.on what’s making headlines around the world.
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