WHO to decide on Covid Emergency Set For Jan 27

A World Health Organization committee will meet on Jan. 27 to consider whether the Covid-19 pandemic still represents a global emergency.

The WHO spokesperson, Carla Drysdale said this on Tuesday, three years after it was first declared.

Drysdale confirmed the timing of the meeting at a Geneva press briefing.

The Emergency Committee advised the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who makes the ultimate call on whether an outbreak represents a so-called Public Health Emergency of International Concern which is the U.N. agency’s highest level of alert.

Several leading scientists and WHO advisers say “it may be too early to declare the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency phase because of high levels of infections in China which dismantled its zero-COVID policy last month.”

Reuters/ Mercy Chukwudiebere