WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is ‘most certainly not over’

WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is 'most certainly not over'

BERLIN — The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.”The U.N. health agency’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told officials gathered in Geneva for opening of the WHO’s annual meeting that “declining testing and sequencing means we are bli…

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COVID-19 Pandemic ‘Certainly Not Over,’ WHO Chief Says

Just when you though it was over, out comes the World Health Organization to say, not so fast.The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” warned Tedros Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Sunday.Although deaths from a current variant of COVID-19, known as Omicron, have dropped precipitously, the WHO head said “we lower our guard at our peril,” according to the United Nations.“So, is COVID-19 over? No, it’s most c…

WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is 'most certainly not over'

Despite a decline in reported of cases worldwide, director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.”

WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is 'most certainly not over'

BERLIN — The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard…

WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is 'most certainly not over'

Despite a decline in reported of cases worldwide, director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.”