China News Agency, Beijing, January 30th, Geneva News: On the 30th local time, the World Health Organization issued a statement on its official website stating that the new crown epidemic still constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern".
The statement stated that the WHO Emergency Committee held the fourteenth meeting of the new crown epidemic on January 27. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus adopted the committee's recommendations and announced on the 30th that the new crown epidemic still constitutes a "concern of international concern". public health emergency".
Tedros echoed the committee's view that the pandemic may be approaching a turning point.
He thanked the Committee for its recommendation that this transition phase should be approached carefully and potential negative impacts mitigated.
The statement stated that the committee expressed concern about the continued risks posed by the new crown. Compared with other respiratory infectious diseases, the death toll caused by the new crown is still high, and the vaccine coverage in low- and middle-income countries and high-risk groups is still insufficient. There is still uncertainty about the emergence of new variant strains.
Based on the opinions of the Emergency Committee, Tan Desai put forward a series of recommendations, including maintaining the vaccination trend of the new crown vaccine, improving the work of reporting the new crown epidemic surveillance data to the WHO, maintaining national response capabilities and preparing for future events.
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