WHO extends public health emergency over Covid but signals end could come soon
The World Health Organization announced Monday that the Covid-19 pandemic remains a public health emergency, but signaled strongly that it believes it may be able to lift that designation in coming months.
The decision to extend the pandemic’s status as a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, was made on the advice of a committee of outside experts who met Friday to deliberate on the issue. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accepted their recommendation.
