OMS: El fin de la pandemia de COVID-19 está “a la vista”’

El director general de la OMS, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, dijo en una sesión informativa el miércoles que se espera que termine la pandemia global de la Covid-19, y el número de casos recién notificados ha disminuido significativamente, instar al mundo a aprovechar la oportunidad de poner fin a la pandemia.

Agence France-Presse informó que desde que Covid-19 fue confirmado al final de 2019, it has so far infected more than 600 million people and killed more than 6 millones de personas en todo el mundo. The number of reported cases of COVID-19 decreased by a substantial 12% from the previous week.

Deaths from COVID-19 last week were the lowest since March 2020, the U.N. agency reported.

Tedros told reporters: “We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic.We are not there yet, but the end is in sight.”

But he also stressed that the world needs to “seize this opportunity” to step up its efforts. “If we don’t take this opportunity now, we run the risk of more variants, more deaths, more disruption, and more uncertainty.” él dijo.