(Dharshini.G, Intern journalist) Geneva: The WHO said Friday that coronavirus pandemic impacts would be felt for a considerable length of time as its emergency panel evaluated the circumstance six months in the wake of sounding its top alert over the pandemic.
The novel coronavirus has killed almost 675,000 individuals and contaminated around 17.3 million since it began in China last December, as indicated by a count from legitimate sources. The World Health Organization’s crisis board of trustees, including 18 individuals and 12 advisers, is meeting for the fourth time over the COVID-19 emergency.
“It’s calming to imagine that a half year prior, when you suggested I pronounce a public health crisis of international concern (PHEIC), there were under 100 cases and no deaths outside China.” WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as the gathering started.
“The pandemic is a once-in-a-century emergency, the impacts of which will be felt for quite a long time to come.”The panel can propose new suggestions or change existing ones. In any case, there is little uncertainty that the WHO will keep up the pandemic’s status as a PHEIC – its most significant level of alert – first alarmed on January 30.
The WHO has been highly criticized for the period of time it took to pronounce a pandemic.