By Katherine Dillinger, CNN
Covid-19 remains a global fitness emergency, the World Health Organization said Monday, but said the pandemic is at a “transition point. “
The WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee discussed the pandemic on Friday at its 14th assembly on Covid-19, and Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus agreed to continue the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, or PHEIC.
On Monday, the WHO’s advisory committee said it had suggested the WHO propose “alternative mechanisms to maintain global and national attention on COVID-19 after the end of the PHEIC. “
“Achieving higher levels of population immunity globally, whether through infection and/or vaccination, could restrict the effect of SARS-CoV-2 on morbidity and mortality, but there is no doubt that this virus will remain a permanently established pathogen. “in humans and animals for the foreseeable future. As such, long-term public fitness action is desperately needed,” the committee said Monday. “Although the elimination of this virus from human and animal reservoirs is highly unlikely, mitigating its devastating effects has an effect on morbidity and mortality is achievable and deserves to remain a priority objective. “
In a list of transitional recommendations, Tedros said countries deserve to continue vaccinating others and incorporate COVID-19 vaccines into the care regime; disease surveillance; maintain a robust physical care formula to avoid a “panic-and-abandon cycle”; continue to combat disinformation; and adjusting foreign travel measures based on threat assessment.
The organization said the coronavirus outbreak was a PHEIC in January 2020, about six weeks before it was called a pandemic.
A PHEIC creates an agreement between countries to comply with WHO recommendations for emergency management. Each country, in turn, declares its own public health emergency, declarations that have legal value. Countries use them to mobilize resources and waive regulations to mitigate a crisis.
The United States remains subject to its own public fitness emergency declaration, which the U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has not yet declared. U. S. Secretary of State Xavier Becerra renewed on Jan. 11.
More than 170,000 more people have died of covid-19 in the past eight weeks, Tedros said last week addressing the committee meeting, and while the world is more prepared to deal with the pandemic than it was three years ago, he continues to ” very concerned about the scenario in many countries and the increasing number of deaths”.
While global deaths from covid-19 tend to rise, the seven-day average is still particularly lower than previous pandemic numbers, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Last week, before the committee meeting, Tedros pleaded with countries not to fight Covid-19.
“My message is clear: Don’t underestimate this virus,” he said. He amazed us and will continue to amaze us, and he will continue to kill unless we do more to supply fitness equipment to the other people who want it and to comprehensively combat misinformation. “
Also Monday, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies released two new reports warning that “all countries remain dangerously unprepared for long-term outbreaks. “
IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain said the COVID-19 pandemic is “a wake-up call”.
“The next pandemic may be right around the corner; if the experience of COVID-19 doesn’t drive our steps toward preparedness, what will?” he said in a press release.
The reports imply that much of the effects of the Covid-19 crisis on countries, such as lost tasks and poverty, loss of learning, lack of trust in food and problems of increased intellectual fitness, could have been avoided if governments had invested in emergency preparedness. They proposed that countries prepare for simultaneous risks, such as epidemics and extreme weather events.
“We want to start preparing now, as our world is becoming increasingly dangerous,” the International Federation’s World Disaster Report 2022 said, noting that many mistakes are due to climate change. In 2021, 378 errors were recorded: not counting epidemics, which is consistent with the 20-year average of 337 errors consistent with the year. Many countries have had to respond to hazards such as hurricanes and floods while dealing with COVID-19. “
The report calls for “action at the community level” to prepare for a frontline crisis and address existing economic and racial inequalities so that they are exacerbated in the event of a crisis.
The IFRC’s Everybody Matters 2023 report also focuses on “local resilience”, strengthening and investing in communities’ “public health, sanitation, housing and economic security”.
Ultimately, the report states, “No one is until everyone is an Array. The pandemic is not over and neither is the response.
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CNN’s Carma Hassan contributed to this report.
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