The World Health Organization (WHO) He said publicly this Wednesday, December 14, that he hopes that Covid-19 and monkeypox (Mpox) will cease to be public health emergencies in 2023, since both diseases passed its most dangerous phase.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the WHO, reported that the number of weekly deaths from covid-19 was around a fifth of that registered in 2021. “Last week, less than 10,000 people were born (due to covid). There are still 10,000 deaths too many and countries can still do a lot to save lives,” he told a news conference.
The WHO referent said that “we have come a long way.” “We are hopeful that sometime next year we will be able to say that covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency.”
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The WHO emergency committee, which advises Tedros on his declarations of public health emergencies of international concern (PHEICs), will start discussing what the end of the emergency phase will look like when it meets in January. of the next month.
What is expected to happen with the Covid-19 virus in 2023
Experts predict that the pandemic will progressively transform in an endemic virus, which will circulate and make the disease resurge periodically, such as measles or seasonal complaint.
Although there may no longer be a global emergency, there is still no forecast for the total eradication of Covid-19. “This virus will not go away. It is here to stay and all countries will have to learn to deal with it, as well as other respiratory diseases,” said the WHO director.
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This is partly explained because many of the covid carriers are asymptomatic, making isolation difficult. The virus is also transmitted to animals, which could circulate it and reinfect humans.
In addition, the vaccines protect well against severe forms of the disease, but little against reinfections, and it is not for life, since booster doses are needed.
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