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WHO: The new crown epidemic is still a "public health emergency of international concern" |
Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, July 15.
The World Health Organization announced on the 15th that the new crown epidemic still constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern
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" WHO Director-General Tan Desai reiterated that the world should speed up vaccination and continue to implement public health and social measures to curb the spread of the virus
WHO web site on the 15th released a statement presentation, the WHO emergency committee will hold a video conference on the 14th, to discuss and evaluate the current situation of the epidemic
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The statement said the emergency committee will be agreed to present the new crown epidemic still constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern", despite the current national, regional and global levels are working hard to fight the epidemic, but the epidemic "far from over"
Committee members
The WHO believes that the development of the new crown epidemic is currently mainly driven by several factors, including mutant viruses, unfair vaccine distribution resulting in a large number of susceptible people, and increased social mobility
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The statement said that there are currently 4 types of mutant new coronaviruses that "need attention" around the world, and it is very likely that new and more dangerous mutant strains will appear in the future, which may be more challenging to prevent and control
Emergency Committee will put forward many proposals to deal with the epidemic, for example, should continue to take public health and social measures to block transmission of the virus, urged fair access to new vaccines crown and distribution, to accelerate the establishment of certification vaccine, virus detection systems in order to facilitate international travel, Continue to strengthen the global monitoring and evaluation of the mutation of the new coronavirus
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The WHO announced on January 30 last year that the new crown epidemic constituted a "public health emergency of international concern", and on March 11 declared that the new crown epidemic had pandemic characteristics
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Under "International Health Regulations," WHO Director-General to periodically re-convened emergency committee will review the epidemic situation
Committee members focus on the new crown pneumonia epidemic