10 May 2023
The World Health Organisation has finally declared an end to Covid as a global health emergency.
The WHO declared Covid an emergency in late January, 2020 however WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently announced that they were downgrading the pandemic, confirming cases and deaths have been on a downward trend for over a year now.
Mr Tedros said: “It’s therefore with great hope that Covid-19 over as a global health emergency.”
He did however urge travellers to remain vigilant.
“This virus is here to stay and still changing,” he said. “It has been so much more than health crisis.
“It has caused severe economic upheaval, disrupting travel and trade, and plunging millions into poverty.”
