The emergency committee of the World Health Organization will meet in May to assess if there is a need to continue the declaration of COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern or not. At a press briefing Friday, WHO Western Pacific Regional Emergency Director Babatunde Olowokure said the assessment of the emergency committee on the global COVID-19 situation will be endorsed to WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for appropriate decision.
The emergency committee of the World Health Organization will meet in May to assess if they will lift or continue to declare COVID-19 as a "public health emergency of international concern".
“There will be a meeting of the emergency committee some time in May and the emergency committee will then consider all the evidence that there is and then will advise the director-general of the WHO if the public health emergency of international concern should continue or not,” Olowokure said. Among the factors that the emergency committee will consider are the transmission of the COVID-19, the severity of hospitalizations and deaths, and the new variants which can affect the existing countermeasures against the virus.
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