JUST IN: WHO Declares End to Covid Global Public Health Emergency
The spread of Covid-19 is no longer a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization declared on Friday.
"For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend with population immunity increasing from vaccination and infection, mortality decreasing, and the pressure on health systems easing," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva. "This trend has allowed most countries to return to life as we knew it before Covid-19," Tedros said."It's therefore with great hope that I declared Covid-19 over as a global health emergency," he said.Read CNBC's latest global health coverage:
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