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.
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Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
