A covid-19 vaccine being prepared in Beijing in January REUTERS/Thomas Peter
When it comes to covid-19, 2023 was different to the pandemic’s previous three years. Across the globe, hospitalisations and deaths reached all-time lows. On 5 May, the World ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ Organization (WHO) announced the virus was no longer a public health emergency, suggesting the pandemic’s crisis phase had ended.
“It is a really important inflection point of accomplishment,” says at the WHO. “But that’s not the end of the story. While the crisis is over, the virus is still with us.”
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