Essay: COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency – here’s what that means (and what we’ve learned along the way)
SIMON NICHOLAS WILLIAMS, a lecturer in psychology at Swansea University in the UK, reflects – in an article first published on The Conversation – on what we’ve learned about human behaviour during the pandemic, and what happens next…
WHO experts weigh up whether world ready to end COVID emergency
London, UK Reuters A panel of global health experts will meet on Thursday to decide if COVID-19 is still an emergency under the World Health Organization’s rules, a status that helps maintain international focus on the pandemic. The WHO first gave COVID its highest level of alert on 30th January 2020, and the panel has […]
WHO declares global health emergency over monkeypox outbreak
London, UK/Zurich, SwitzerlandReuters The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization’s highest level of alert, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday. The WHO label – a “public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)” – is designed to trigger a coordinated international response and could unlock funding to […]
CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK: WHO OFFICIALS RETHINK EPIDEMIC MESSAGING AMID PANDEMIC DEBATE
KATE KELLAND and STEPHANIE NEBEHAY, of Reuters, report…