The World Health Organization and the Biden administration are both saying that COVID-19 remains a public health emergency, even as global deaths from the virus have reached the lowest levels since March 2020.
Both the WHO and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first declared COVID-19 a public health emergency in January 2020. More than two years later, the pandemic situation has improved, but global health experts believe the virus is still a major health threat.
More needs to be done before the WHO can lift this designation, the organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday during a press conference.
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