“The World Health Organization said on Friday that COVID-19 no longer is a worldwide health emergency. On Thursday, the WHO's Emergency Committee met and recommended that the UN-agency state an end to the public health emergency that has caused global concern that has been in place for more than three years. “

The World Health Organization said on Friday that COVID-19 no longer is a worldwide health emergency. The news has become a major event as it led to the end of the pandemic which has been the reason for the death of over 7 million people, ravaged communities, and disrupted the global economy.

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The World Health Organization or WHO is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) engaged in the responsibilities of international public health. WHO played an important role in controlling COVID-19 and its guidelines saved millions of people across the world.

On Thursday, the WHO's Emergency Committee met and recommended that the UN-agency state an end to the public health emergency that has caused global concern that has been in place for more than three years. 

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, said, "It is therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency,", adding the end of the emergency did not indicate COVID was over as an international health threat.

COVID was declared an emergency by the WHO's emergency committee more than three years ago, on January 30, 2020. The designation helps to focus international attention on a public health threat while also increasing the association between vaccines and treatments.

Lifting it is a sign of the world's progress in these areas, but COVID-19 is here to stay, according to the WHO, even if it no longer represents an emergency.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, said, "COVID has changed the world, and it has changed us. And that's the way it should be. If we go back to how things were before COVID-19, we will have failed to learn our lessons, and failed our future generations."