GENEVA: The World Health Organization's (WHO) emergency committee on Covid-19 on Wednesday unanimously affirmed that the coronavirus remained a major public health danger and insisted that countries must stop dropping their guard. With many nations relaxing public health and social measures, and drastically reducing testing for the virus, the global health body's group of experts said the pandemic was far from over. "The situation is far from over with regard to the Covid-19 pandemic. It concluded that the pandemic still constituted a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic) — the highest level of alert that the WHO can sound. This was the lowest number of Covid deaths since the early days of the pandemic.

Source: Manila Times April 14, 2022 18:52 UTC