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Health bosses warn world needs to prepare for 'disease deadlier than Covid'

The world needs to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic in order to prepare for "even deadlier" viruses in the future, a World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has warned.

Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that people can't carry on as normal after the pandemic, which he claims turned everybody's lives "upside down".

Speaking at a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Dr Tedros warned that although it may seem as though the worst is over, being prepared for an "even deadlier" pathogen is vital, reports the Mirror.

He said: "The world was taken by surprise and found unprepared for the Covid-19 pandemic, the most severe health crisis in a century.

"Over the past three years, Covid-19 has turned our world upside down. Almost seven million deaths have been reported, but we know the toll is several times higher – at least 20 million.

"The pandemic has caused severe disruption to health systems, and severe economic, social and political upheaval. Covid-19 has changed our world, and it must."

The health boss also warned that there's the risk of a pathogen emerging that's "even deadlier" than Covid-19.

"The threat of another variant emerging that causes new surges of disease and death remains. And the threat of another pathogen emerging with even deadlier potential remains,” he said.

"We cannot kick this can down the road. If we do not make the changes that must be made, then who will?

"And if we do not make them now, then when? When the next pandemic comes knocking – and it will – we must be ready to answer decisively, collectively and equitably."

Dr Tedros also highlighted that although Covid is still an issue, it's not as big a concern as it once was.

"To be clear, Covid-19 is still with us, it still kills,

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Health bosses warn world needs to prepare for 'disease deadlier than Covid'

The world needs to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic in order to prepare for "even deadlier" viruses in the future, a World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has warned.

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What does ending the emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US mean?

Ending the federal emergency reflects both a scientific and political judgment that the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis has ended and that special federal resources are no longer needed to prevent disease transmission across borders.The COVID-19 pandemic’s public health emergency status in the U.S. expires on May 11, 2023.

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Covid-19 is no longer global health emergency - WHO

Covid-19 no longer represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization has said, a major step towards the end of the pandemic that has killed more than 6.9 million people, disrupted the global economy and ravaged communities.

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After more than three years of turmoil, disruption and heartache, world leaders are signaling that the Covid-19 emergency is ending. The viral illness that has sickened and killed millions is becoming a more manageable, long-term foe. The World Health Organization on May 5 declared an end to the global public-health emergency.

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COLOMBO (News 1st) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a "global health emergency". The statement represents a major step towards ending the pandemic and comes three years after it first declared its highest level of alert over the virus.Officials said the virus' death rate had dropped from a peak of more than 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 on 24 April.The head of the WHO said at least seven million people died in the pandemic.But Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the true figure was "likely" closer to 20 million deaths – nearly three times the official estimate – and he warned that the virus remained a significant threat.He said, "Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I've accepted that advice.

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COVID-19 no longer a global health emergency – but ‘battle is not over’: WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a global health emergency, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Friday.

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COVID Is No Longer a Global Health Emergency, World Health Organization Says

COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization said Friday, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.«It's with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency,» WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.«That does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat,» he said, adding he wouldn't hesitate to reconvene experts to reassess the situation should COVID-19 «put our world in peril.»The U.N. health agency says that thousands of people are still dying from the virus every week, and there have been recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. COVID was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S.

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A panel of global health experts will meet today 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.

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Covid-19 may have originated from humans, claims Chinese scientist

Covid-19 virus. Another Chinese scientist Zhou Lei called for global scientific collaboration in tracing the origins of the virus, saying that the site where Covid-19 was first discovered was not necessarily where it originated. China has received a barrage of criticism for blocking international investigations into the origins of the Covid-19 virus.

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The World Health Organization chief has pressed China to share its information about the origins of Covid-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table, more than three years after the virus first emerged.

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travellers from China from 5 January 2023 due to surge of infections. It had stated that all travellers to the US from China will be required to take a COVID-19 test no more than two days before travel and provide a negative test before boarding their flight. China was battered with a surge in cases after it abruptly abandoned its zero-COVID policy in early December, unleashing the virus on its 1.4 billion population.

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Covid-19 will mutate to overcome vaccine immunity, warns former WHO chief scientist

WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan, in an interview with news agency ANI, has said, “There is a risk that the virus will mutate in a way that it can overcome the vaccine induced immunity. " Swaminathan has suggested that continued surveillance should be done to avoid another wave that could potentially kill millions of people like the Covid-19 did during the second wave that was dominated by the Delta variant of the virus. Earlier in February, the WHO has estimated that 90 percent of the world population now had some resistance to Covid-19, but warned that a troubling new variant could still emerge.

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Three years to the day after the World Health Organization sounded the highest level of global alert over Covid-19, it said the pandemic remains an international emergency.

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Is the COVID-19 pandemic over? WHO to vote whether to end global health emergency declaration

WASHINGTON - It’s almost hard to believe that nearly three years have passed since the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of a virus — later named SARS-CoV-2 — as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). But on Friday, a committee is meeting to deliberate and vote whether it is time to recommend to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that he declare the global health emergency is over. The committee advises the director-general, who will make the final decision, but he generally follows the committee’s advice.Days before the vote, the director-general said in a media briefing that he was "very concerned" about the rising number of COVID-19 deaths globally. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gives a press conference at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva, on December 14, 2022. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) "While I will not pre-empt the advice of the Emergency Committee, I remain very concerned by the situation in many countries and the rising number of deaths," Tedros said Tuesday, suggesting the committee may not think it’s the right time to advise Tedros to terminate the declaration. Worldwide, deaths have steadily increased since December, according to recent data by Johns Hopkins University.

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WHO appeals to China to release more COVID-19 information

BEIJING : The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of COVID-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December following weeks of complaints it was failing to tell the world what was happening. The announcement Saturday was the first official death toll since the ruling Communist Party abruptly dropped anti-virus restrictions in December despite a surge in infections that flooded hospitals. That left the WHO and other governments appealing for information, while the United States, South Korea and others imposed controls on visitors from China.

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The World Health Organization has said that Covid-19 remains a global emergency, nearly three years after it was first declared as one.

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Covid-19: India reports 4,500 infections in a day

India reported 4,510 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to an update by the Union health ministry on Wednesday. As a result, active cases currently stand at 46,216. The active caseload comprise 0.10 per cent of the total infections.

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End of COVID pandemic is ‘in sight’ – WHO chief

(ABC) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says the world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic."We are not there yet. But the end is in sight," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, in his most upbeat assessment since declaring an international emergency in January 2020 and describing COVID-19 as a pandemic three months later.The virus, which emerged in China in late 2019, has killed nearly 6.5 million people, including more than 14,000 in Australia.Deaths from COVID-19 last week were the lowest since March 2020, the WHO reported.But Dr.

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The end of the Coronavirus pandemic is 'within sight' according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as weekly deaths from the virus around the world hit the lowest level since March 2020.

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The number of newly reported Covid-19 cases has dropped dramatically, the World Health Organization has said, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic.

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One million Covid-related deaths so far this year - WHO

The World Health Organization announced today that one million people with Covid-19 have so far died in 2022, calling it a "tragic milestone" when all the tools existed to prevent deaths.

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AP report. Notably, closer home in India, the daily cases climbed to 12,608 fresh cases on Thursday, taking the country's total tally of Covid-19 cases to 4,42,98,864, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

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WHO warns of covid transmission, hospitalisation risks in coming months

WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said"There is a lot of talk about learning to live with the #COVID19 virus. But we cannot live with 15,000 deaths a week.We cannot live with mounting hospitalizations and deaths.We cannot live with inequitable access to vaccines and other tools"-@DrTedros “This is completely unacceptable when we have all the tools to prevent infections and save lives." The WHO chief on Thursday was speaking at a weekly press briefing on COVID, monkeypox and other issues.

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The unprecedented rise in monkeypox cases Regarding monkeypox, WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the has been known to infect humans for more than 50 years, but until this year, was little known or understood outside Africa. Owing to this, the disease received scant attention or investment.

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Monkeypox: 890 cases reported in Canada, majority in Ontario

Canada has reported 890 monkeypox cases as of Aug. 3, with Ontario reporting the most cases, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said on Wednesday.

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COLOMBO (News 1st); The Allergy Immunology and Cell Biology Unit of the University of Sri Jayewardenapura warned there is a risk of MonkeyPox entering Sri Lanka.Dr. Chamdima Jeewarandara told News 1st that as the symptoms of MonkeyPox is visible, it is easy to identify the infected cases, adding that the spread is far less than what was experienced with COVID-19.The World Health Organization has activated its highest alert level for the growing monkeypox outbreak, declaring the virus a public health emergency of international concern.The rare designation means the WHO now views the outbreak as a significant enough threat to global health that a coordinated international response is needed to prevent the virus from spreading further and potentially escalating into a pandemic.Although the declaration does not impose requirements on national governments, it serves as an urgent call for action.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that the world must be ready for new variants of the coronavirus as Covid-19 infections rise. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the statement at a press conference amid the onset of new variants that are more transmissible, immune evasive and growing concerns about greater hospitalisations of Covid patients.

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Centaurus is the nickname of a new coronavirus subvariant that has been detected in around 10 countries, including the UK.

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Governments should consider reintroducing Covid protection measures amid a global “increasing trend of deaths” from the virus, a World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has warned.

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World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke of a new sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of Covid-19 that has now been detected in India. Omicron sub-variants BA.4, BA.5 may fuel into a new Covid infection surge, a top health official in India said on 8 July. Ghebreyesus also talked about the global sudden surge in coronavirus cases.

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monkeypox, including one death, have been reported to WHO from 42 countries. But WHO's Europe office and the EU health agency conveyed that 2,746 cases had been recorded in Europe alone till Tuesday. "The emergency committee will provide a recommendation to the director-general based on scientific principles, and an assessment of the risk to human health, the risk of international spread and the risk of interference with international traffic," the WHO said.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0