The World Health Organization (WHO) indicated on March 17 that it hopes to lower its maximum alert level for Covid-19 this year, estimating that the disease could soon represent a threat similar to that of the seasonal flu.
"We have reached a point where we can consider Covid-19 in the same way that we consider seasonal flu, that is, a health threat, a virus that will continue to kill, but a virus that does not disrupt our society or our hospital systems" The head of the WHO’s emergency programs, Michael Ryan, told the press in Geneva, quoted by the Télam agency.
In turn, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was "very pleased that, for the first time, the weekly number of deaths recorded in the last four weeks was lower than that recorded when we first used the word ’pandemic’, three years ago.
"Today we are certainly in a much better position than at any other time in the pandemic," Tedros said, according to the AFP news agency .
The UN agency declared an "international public health emergency" due to Covid-19 on January 30, 2020, at a time when there were fewer than 100 positive cases and no deaths outside China, and shortly after, in March In 2020, Tedros described the situation as a pandemic.
