The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, urging nations to keep up their efforts against the virus that has killed over 6 million people.
“We are not there yet. But the end is in sight,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a virtual press conference.
Deaths from COVID-19 last week were the lowest since March 2020, the U.N. agency reported.
While the WHO expects continued future waves of COVID-19 infections, the world had tools in hands such as vaccines and antivirals to prevent serious infections, said Maria Kerkhove, technical lead for COVID-19.
Monkeypox cases, too, were on a downtrend but Tedros urged countries to keep up the fight. “As with COVID-19, this is not the time to relax or let down our guard.”
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