WHO to assess whether Covid pandemic officially over

WHO technical lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, said a specialist group is assessing vaccines and their effectiveness against new strains of Covid-19.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will meet this week to assess whether Covid-19 is officially moving out of the pandemic phase.

WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “Almost three years on from declaring a public emergency of international concern, our highest level of alert, this week the emergency committee on Covid-19 will discuss whether the current situation still constitutes a global emergency.”