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Covid-19 pandemic is over – WHO

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The World Health Organization has said that coronavirus no longer qualifies as a global emergency.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a global health emergency, after more than three years and nearly 7 million dead.

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus officially downgraded the status of the disease on Friday while stressing it remained a “global health threat.” The decision to lower the alert level was made following a meeting of experts on Thursday.

While the “emergency phase” has concluded, thousands of people were still dying every week from the virus, the WHO insisted. The WHO first described Covid-19 as a pandemic in March 2020, when the virus had spread to every continent except Antarctica.

While the disease had claimed just a few hundred lives by that time, the pandemic declaration resulted in unprecedented lockdowns and restrictions on movement and commerce, causing economic contractions that are still being felt. Since then, about 764 million cases have been recorded globally, while 5 billion people have reportedly received at least one dose of a vaccine.

While most countries have dropped their pandemic control measures, the US still has a public health emergency in effect, which is not due to expire until next week. More than 1.1 million people died having Covid-19 in the US, more than in any other country, according to WHO statistics.

In 2021 the WHO declared the virus had jumped to humans from animals, only to reverse course the following year and acknowledge that “key pieces of data” were missing in assessing if it might have emerged from a lab instead.

Earlier this week, the organization announced that the head of the international mission sent to China to investigate the pandemic’s origins had been dismissed for sexual misconduct. Peter Ben Embarek has claimed political pressure was exerted on his team, including from outside China.

Frustrated by the lack of a coordinated global response to its emergency declaration, the WHO has put its 194 member nations to work drafting a global treaty to address future pandemics. While the agreement is ostensibly aimed at protecting the population from global health threats, critics have warned it could preempt national sovereignty and individual rights.

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  1. Can’t speak for anyone else. In the USA hospitals were given bonuses for COVID deaths ($100k). I personally know one older couple who weren’t sick but went to a “drive through” test. The husband was declared positive, admitted to hospital, died within a week. (Wife said he wasn’t sick).

    • This is what was happening with the fake PCR Tests
      Which is where the fake numbers came from to justify a fake pandemic warranting fake vaccines
      Nothing to do with health
      People were being diagnosed with covid rebranded corona which is in all influenza while being asymptomatic and showing no symptoms
      Kary Mullis inventor of the PCR Test said You can find almost anything in anyone if the genetic sequences were amplified to a degree
      Which is exactly what happend

  2. Why wasn’t Guy Hatchard in the Kings birthday honors list?
    I think we know the answer to that
    A criminal fraternity of fraudsters
    Crime pays

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