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Pandemic 'nowhere near over' with new surges

The public health experts who declared COVID-19 was a pandemic said it isn't over yet because new variants "may present an even greater health threat."

A billboard in Morocco, where a state of health emergency has been in force since March 2020
A billboard in Morocco, where a state of health emergency has been in force since March 2020 (AN/M. Hobl)

GENEVA (AN) — The public health experts who first declared COVID-19 a pandemic said it isn't over yet and the spread of new variants "may present an even greater health threat."

A committee of experts chaired by French surgeon Dr. Didier Houssin "unanimously agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic still meets the criteria of an extraordinary event that continues to adversely impact the health of the world’s population," the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

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