The Covid-19 pandemic is "far from over", the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced on Tuesday at a press conference in Geneva.
"As the virus breaks through, we need to push it back," Dr Tedros said, adding: "The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over.
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A summit meeting
He spoke on the sidelines of the publication by the WHO of the results of the last meeting of the Emergency Committee on Covid-19, which was held last Friday.
The UN agency has thus announced the maintenance of the Covid-19 pandemic at the rank of “public health emergency of international concern”, the highest level of alert of the organization, following a unanimous decision of the Committee.
Drop in screenings
The Committee points to the drop in screening and genomic sequencing, which make it “increasingly difficult” to assess the impact of Covid-19 variants, and underlines “the inadequacy of current surveillance” of the pandemic.
The Committee notes the recent increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in different regions of the world, as well as the lack of implementation of appropriate public health measures in regions affected by a resurgence of cases.
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