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The World Health Organization (WHO) continued the action of the global emergency due to the coronavirus, the Associated Press reported, quoted by BTA.

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At the annual meeting of the WHO's Executive Board, its Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world "is now undoubtedly in a much better situation" than a year ago, when the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant of the virus was at its peak.

He warned that in the last eight weeks, at least 170,000 people worldwide have died from the coronavirus.

The head of the WHO called for full vaccination of risk groups, increased testing and earlier use of antiviral preparations.

Tedros also appealed for the expansion of laboratory networks and to fight "misinformation" about the pandemic.

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"We remain hopeful that by next year the world will be able to minimize hospitalizations and deaths from covid," he said.

Tedros made his speech shortly before the WHO announced the conclusions of the pandemic report of its Emergency Committee, according to which about 13.1 billion doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 have been administered worldwide, AP notes.

In the exported data, it is added that nearly 90 percent of medics worldwide are immunized, and almost 80 percent of people over the age of 60 are vaccinated with at least one dose.

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