COVID-19 no longer a global health emergency: WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic, which for over three years has killed millions of people, wreaked economic havoc and deepened inequalities, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the WHO said Friday. It is with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, estimating that the pandemic had killed at least 20 million people -- nearly three times the under seven million deaths officially recorded.