Covid-19 no longer a global emergency, says WHO


PETALING JAYA: More than three years after the declaration of a global emergency for Covid-19 and close to seven million lives lost worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) is now saying it is over.

Prof Dr Moy Foong Ming of Universiti Malaya’s Department of Social and Preventive Medicine said that with hybrid immunity from a high vaccination rate and natural Covid-19 infection, public health measures in managing the pandemic, and less virulent variants, the public will be able to co-exist with the coronavirus and enter the endemic phase.

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