WHO: ‘COVID-19 No Longer Global Health Emergency’

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News

GENEVA/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) says the coronavirus pandemic is no longer a global health emergency.

The WHO says millions of people have died of COVID-19, mainly elderly people with pre-existing conditions.

Critics say many people worldwide were forced into taking “experimental vaccines” for a virus with a roughly 99.87 percent survival rate.  Supporters of the vaccine programs claim it helped to prevent more hospitalizations.

Friday’s WHO announcement suggested that measures such as lockdowns were no longer required.

“COVID-19 is here to stay, but the pandemic has been in a downward trend for more than a year because people worldwide have built up immunity to the virus,” the WHO said on Friday.

The trend has enabled most countries to return to pre-pandemic life, even as COVID-19 continues to spread, the WHO explained.

Governments in several countries, ranging from China to even Western countries, have been blamed by protestors and opposition legislators for misusing the COVID-19 pandemic argument to introduce draconian measures.

“20 MILLION KILLED”

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who made the announcement, estimated that the pandemic had killed “at least 20 million” people among a world population of over 8 billion.

However, that figure is still nearly three times more than the confirmed numbers.

Several health workers have said that hospitals including in Asia, at least in some cases, cited COVID-19 wrongly as the leading cause of death due to financial or political pressure.

Similar reports emerged in the United States, though the WHO suggested that may not have impacted the overall accurate death figures.

The U.N. health agency stressed that although the emergency phase was over, the “pandemic” hasn’t ended, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

It claimed that “thousands” of people are dying from the virus every week, and millions of others report they are still suffering from debilitating, long-term effects of the disease.

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