The World Health Organization will be able to declare the end of the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of 2023. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyis announced this date.

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“I am confident that at some point this year we will be able to say that COVID-19 has ended as a health emergency of international concern and as a pandemic,” Ghebreis said..

He recalled that March 11 marked three years since the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.. More importantly, however, Ghebreis said, the organization declared the spread of COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern..

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