Covid-19 is still a threat, according to the European office of the World Health Organisation, which stated that it still causes around to 1,000 fatalities a week in the area.
On May 5, the international organisation for health declared that the Covid-19 epidemic was no longer a “global health emergency.”
“Whilst it may not be a global public health emergency, however, Covid-19 has not gone away,” WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge mentioned while speaking to the reporters.
53 nations make up the WHO’s European region, including many in central Asia.
“Close to 1,000 new Covid-19 deaths continue to occur across the region every week, and this is an underestimate due to a drop in countries regularly reporting Covid-19 deaths to WHO,” Kluge further said.
According to estimates, around 36 million people, or one in thirty, in the region have encountered what are known as “long Covid” in the past three years, which “remains a complex condition we still know very little about.”
“Unless we develop comprehensive diagnostics and treatment for long Covid, we will never truly recover from the pandemic,” Kluge added, promoting additional study of the illness, which he described as being under-researched.
The health organisation also warned caution due to the dangers of heat waves and a revival of mpox, for which there were 22 new cases in the region in May.
