Though the emergency phase is over, the World Health Organization's pandemic designation still holds.
GENEVA (AN) — The World Health Organization says it no longer considers the COVID-19 pandemic to be a global health emergency, bringing a symbolic close to three-years of universal disruption.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday he accepted the Emergency Committee's recommendation to declare an official end to the coronavirus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, or PHEIC, the highest level of alert that the U.N. health agency can issue.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
With the Earth growing hotter and the oceans becoming warmer, rising sea levels threaten islands and coastal areas.
The U.N. health agency's US$135 million mpox plan covers mainly 'international support to national mpox responses.'
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
Landlocked between Russia and China, Mongolia depends on Russia to meet its energy needs and China to buy its exports.
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts for people in Yemen (US$20 million) and Ethiopia (US$15 million).
