WHO Chief Says End Of COVID-19 Pandemic 'In Sight', Deaths At Lowest Since 2020

WHO chief has said that this pandemic, which started in the last months of 2019, has killed millions of people.

World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Source: File photo/AFP)

New Delhi: The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said the world had never been in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic and “We are not there yet, but the end is in sight," as reported by news agency AFP. In the last week, there has been a rapid decline in the cases of Covid-19 infection. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the world has a better chance of ending the Covid epidemic, which should be given attention. 

But the world needed to step up to "seize this opportunity", he added.

"If we don't take this opportunity now, we run the risk of more variants, more deaths, more disruption, and more uncertainty."

WHO chief has said that this pandemic, which started in the last months of 2019, has killed millions of people. The lowest number of Covid cases have been reported after last week 2020. Tedros has said that we cannot say right now that we are towards the end but the epidemic seems to be ending.

In 2020, the same organisation gave the status of the pandemic to this virus. Millions of people lost their lives due to this pandemic and a worldwide lockdown was imposed.

"The number of cases that are being reported to WHO we know are an underestimate," Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO technical lead on Covid, told reporters.

"We feel that far more cases are actually circulating than are being reported to us," she said, cautioning that the virus "is circulating at a very intense level around the world at the present time".

In November 2019, the first case of Covid virus was reported in China. Since then, about 65,00,000 lakh people worldwide have died due to infection. About 60 crore people have come under the grip of this epidemic. The world economy and health system came to a standstill in this pandemic.