The World Health Organization expects that by July all countries will have vaccinated at least 70% of their inhabitants against Covid. Only then will it be decided whether the state of emergency will be extended or terminated.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is celebrating its 75th annual meeting this Sunday with the challenge of: end the “state of emergency” in which he has worked since the start of the 2020 pandemic, taking on new challenges when it ends, including trying to prevent a similar crisis from happening again.
Until 28 May, the health heads of the 194 member states in the Palace of Nations, the European headquarters of the UN, will evaluate the actions of the past year and set objectives for the next, at the first meeting to be held. will be held in person since the start of the pandemic.
While the WHO is expected to maintain the international emergency due to covid-19 at least until July (month when the committee responsible for extending that situation or ending it is scheduled to meet), the organization’s general manager, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced this week that the topic will be up for debate.
“We will discuss, among other things, how we can end the emergency increasing access to vaccines, antivirals and other resources essential,” said Tedros, who maintains the goal that by July all countries have managed to vaccinate at least 70% of their population against Covid.
“After three years, I will be very happy to meet health leaders in person in Geneva, for a meeting that comes at a crucial time,” said Tedros, who wrote in this edition. is re-elected for a second term of five yearsduring a vote to take place on Tuesday 24.
Possible future pandemics
The meeting, on the other hand, will seek to make progress in the reform of the WHO and of the international health regulations to better prepare the planet for possible future pandemics, after verifying with the one that started in 2020, the worst in over a century, that the world was not prepared for it.
The reforms will continue Greater financial strength and more independence for the WHO and provide members with international regulations that require them to report new dangerous pathogens more quickly, although many of these reforms, according to the WHO itself, will take a long time.
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Source: EITB

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