WHO extends Covid health emergency warning, says “misinformation” needs to be tackled

At the 14th meeting of the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee, it was decided that COVID-19 was still a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) and has said more needs to be done to tackle “misinformation.”

COVID-19 was first declared a PHEIC on January 30, 2020, and the status was most recently renewed last July.

The WHO said that it determined that COVID-19 “continues to constitute” a PHEIC but acknowledged that the “pandemic is probably at a transition point.”