2023-05-05 15:18:11
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May 5, 2023 10:26 AM | m.
After more than 3 years of international emergency due to covid, the World Health Organization (WHO) lifted that emergency this Friday. This, due to the decrease in serious cases of the virus and deaths worldwide.
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The decision was announced by the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, following the organization’s emergency committee met this Thursday to analyze the current situation of the pandemic, which in more than three years has affected at least 765 million people and has caused the death of some 20 million.
Since the beginning of the year, the number of covid infections and reported deaths has been decreasing globally: in the last week of April, the WHO confirmed 630,000 cases worldwide and 3,500 deaths, when in January there were more than 1.3 million of positives and the 14,000 deaths, partly due to the wave in China.
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