Closer to 20 million deaths. - a photo on Flickriver

            The World Health Organization first declared Covid-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020. 

This week - Covid global health emergency is over.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a "global health emergency".

The statement represents a major step towards ending the pandemic and comes three years after it first declared its highest level of alert over the virus.

Officials said the virus' death rate had dropped from a peak of more than 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 on 24 April.

The head of the WHO said at least seven million people died in the pandemic.  But Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the true figure was "likely" closer to 20 million deaths - nearly three times the official estimate - and he warned that the virus remained a significant threat. 

Dr Mike Ryan, from the WHO's health emergencies programme, said the emergency may have ended, but the threat is still there.

"We fully expect that this virus will continue to transmit and this is the history of pandemics," he said.

"It took decades for the final throes of the pandemic virus of 1918 to disappear. 

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Taken on: May 5, 2023

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Camera: Sony ILCE-6300, f/4.5, 1/80 sec, 16mm (=24mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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