WHO declares an end to the global COVID-19 public health emergency
It marks a shift to long-term measures to handle the coronavirus
COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization announced May 5.
The organization pointed to two factors: Dropping COVID-19-related deaths and hospitalizations, and high levels of immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from vaccination or prior infection. While the pandemic is not over, those trends signal that it’s time to transition to more long-term prevention and control of the disease, WHO said in a statement.
By McKenzie Prillaman via Science News