By the end of this year, the Covid-19 epidemic will no longer be regarded as a global health emergency, according to World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Tedros stated in a speech at the University of Michigan that he is “confident that at some point this year we will be able to say that Covid-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern – and as a pandemic” after receiving the Thomas Francis Jr. medal for his contributions to healthcare.
The head of the WHO highlighted that since the Covid-19 outbreak was initially referred to as a “pandemic” on March 11, 2020, the weekly number of reported deaths has decreased.
Tedros emphasized the need to commemorate the roughly seven million lives lost to the virus and draw lessons from the outbreak, even though the pandemic may come to an end this year. If we don’t, we’ll go through the same cycle of fear and inaction that has long characterized the world’s reaction to diseases and pandemics, he said.
The following is a list of the important takeaways from this article. The first was how crucial public health was. Tedros urged nations of all economic levels to make investments in a strong primary healthcare system that can spot epidemics in their earliest stages.
According to the health chief, the second lesson was the significance of science and the perils of politicizing topics such as masks, vaccinations, and lockdowns, which eventually “hampered the response to the epidemic and cost lives.”
He also stated that the topic of how the epidemic began remained unsolved due to a “lack of cooperation from China,” which he claims has refused to be transparent in data sharing and perform “the appropriate investigations and disclose the results.”
Lastly, the director-general stated that the third lesson was the value of collaboration. Tedros argued that one of the distinguishing aspects of the Covid-19 epidemic was the international community’s lack of collaboration and coordination owing to “narrow nationalism.”
In order to do this, the WHO has suggested a “pandemic pact,” or a deal between governments to cooperate with one another in order to prepare for and respond to upcoming epidemics and pandemics.
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