The World Health Organization will hold a meeting to discuss whether the Wuhan pneumonia still meets the criteria of an "international public health emergency".

(European News Agency)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] It has been three years since the Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) pandemic, the World Health Organization will hold a meeting to discuss whether it still meets the criteria of an "international public health emergency".

According to the US health news website "Stat News", the World Health Organization (WHO) will hold a meeting on the 27th to discuss whether Wuhan pneumonia still meets the criteria of "International Public Health Emergency (PHEIC)", and the discussion is expected to be announced on the 30th. result.

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Secretary-General of the World Health Organization, previously stated that the current timing is not ripe, and the global death toll from the new crown has risen again. In the past 2 months, more than 170,000 confirmed deaths have been confirmed worldwide. underestimated.

Thomas J. Bollyky, director of global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, believes that the WHO may end the "international public health emergency" status in 2023, but considering that the death toll in China is still high, it will not be Lift it now.

A "public health emergency of international concern" is the World Health Organization's alert standard for epidemics, which is judged to be "serious, sudden, unusual or unexpected" and may require immediate international action.

But declaring the end of the "international public health emergency" does not mean that Wuhan pneumonia is no longer a threat, nor does it mean that the epidemic is over.

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