The World Health Organization (WHO) will be able to declare the end of the coronavirus pandemic as early as 2023. This forecast was made by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the ceremony of presenting him with the Thomas Francis Jr. medal for his contribution to health care. His speech provided on the website organizations.
“I am confident that at some point this year we will be able to say that COVID-19 has ended as a public health emergency of international concern and as a pandemic.” Gebreyesus said.
The head of WHO made a statement that now, in his opinion, the world is in a better position than ever during a pandemic. For the first time, the weekly number of reported deaths is lower than when the WHO first used the word “pandemic” to refer to the spread of the coronavirus.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus added that March 11 marked three years since the WHO officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
In February 2023, it was reported that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives of the US Congress provoked an investigation into the origins of COVID-19, demanding information from senior US administration officials and former chief epidemiologist Anthony Fauci.
