WHO downgrades Covid-19 pandemic, saying it is no longer a global emergency

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: 'It’s with great hope that I declare covid-19 over as a global health emergency'

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (AP)

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Covid-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency.

The announcement marks a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least seven million people worldwide.