The World Health Organization (WHO) said a key committee will meet this week to discuss the emergency status of the COVID-19 coronavirus, six months after its announcement..

WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the UN health emergency committee will meet to reconsider the statement that the outbreak is a "

The so-called PHEIC declaration, which indicates the highest level of anxiety according to international health regulations, must be reviewed every six months.. Prior to COVID-19, WHO had made such claims only five times since the 2007 revision of the International Health Regulations.. for swine flu, polio, Zika and twice for Ebola outbreaks in Africa.

Tedros noted that the current pandemic "

There is no doubt that the emergency committee will consider the pandemic still a global public health emergency, but it could potentially change some of its recommendations on how WHO and the world should respond..

“When I declared a public health emergency of international concern on January 30,. there have been fewer than 100 cases outside of China and no deaths. But since then, the number of cases has exceeded 16 million, and almost 650,000 people have died worldwide.. "

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