The leader of the World Health Organization said Friday that he expects the organization to declare an end to the COVID-19 pandemic later this year because statistics on the virus keep declining.
“I am confident that this year we will be able to say that COVID-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at aFor the first time, the weekly number of reported COVID deaths over a four-week period was lower than when WHO declared COVID a global pandemic three years ago.
“We are certainly in a much better position now than we have been at any time during the pandemic,” said Ghebreyesus. In January, Ghebreyesus said the pandemic was probably at “a transition point,” meaning public health measures could be further de-escalated. In the United States, COVID-related statistics have gone up and down over the last three years as different strains of the virus dominate, but the numbers are now trending downward.as of March 15 of this year. That’s the lowest number of weekly deaths since March 25, 2020, when there were 1,119.
Another lull occurred when weekly deaths dropped to 1,717 on July 7, 2021. The highest number of weekly deaths came on Jan. 13, 2021, when there were more than 23,000.
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