"It is therefore with great hope that I declare #COVID19 over as a global health emergency.

However, that does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat.

Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about.

As we speak, thousands of people around the world are fighting for their lives in intensive care units. And millions more continue to live with the debilitating effects of post-#COVID19 condition.

This virus is here to stay. It is still killing, and it is still changing. The risk remains of new variants emerging that cause new surges in cases and deaths.

The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that #COVID19 is nothing to worry about.

What this news means is that it is time for countries to transition from emergency mode to managing #COVID19 alongside other infectious diseases.

I emphasise that this is not a snap decision. It is a decision that has been considered carefully for some time, planned for, and made on the basis of a careful analysis of the data.

If need be, I will not hesitate to convene another Emergency Committee should #COVID19 once again put our world in peril.

While this Emergency Committee will now cease its work, it has sent a clear message that countries must not cease theirs.

On the Committee’s advice, I have decided to use a provision in the International Health Regulations that has never been used before, to establish a Review Committee to develop long-term, standing recommendations for countries on how to manage #COVID19 on an ongoing basis.

LagosFirstSon:
After una don cash out finish

DrAda:
It's far from over. The world awaits the after effects of the vaccine

LagosFirstSon:
After una don cash out finish

DrAda:
It's far from over. The world awaits the after effects of the vaccine

WikiGuru:
It was never a threat really, just some greedy capitalists creating means to amass wealth.

Bill Gates funded the research Lab in Wuhan where the virus broke out of.

Bill Gates also a part owner of and Ally of the Pfizer, makers of the Vaccines for which WHO gave exclusive rights to deliver vaccines all over the world through its parents company, Astra-Zeneca. Just greedy folks milking the world.

PHIPEX:
Suddenly Covid virus died and became impotent.

All of you should continue to dey play, some of us were not deceived. How many Nigerians took the vaccine, how come there are no more infection?