The World Health Organization (WHO) revoked the pandemic status of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus announced.
He noted that during the last year, the WHO emergency committee "thoroughly analyzed the data and considered the right time to reduce the level of danger."
Let's remind that the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, then in Europe, became global news in the winter of 2019-2020.
On March 11, 2020, WHO declared a coronavirus pandemic.
"At that time, outside China there were fewer than 100 reported [#COVID19] cases, and no reported deaths.
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) May 5, 2023
In the 3 years since then, COVID-19 has turned our world upside down.
Almost 7 million deaths have been reported to WHO, but we know the toll is several times higher – at…