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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (credit: Getty | Fabrice Cof<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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The World Health Organization on Monday renewed its declaration that the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)\u2014the agency’s highest level of alert\u2014but acknowledged that the 3-year-old crisis may be nearing an “inflection point,” after which the virus could be downgraded to a less dire but permanent fixture in the gamut of human pathogens.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the agency convened its emergency committee for the 14th time to assess the global status of the pandemic coronavirus. The week marked the three-year anniversary of the agency’s initial COVID-19 PHEIC declaration.<\/p>\n

“As we enter the fourth year of the pandemic, we are certainly in a much better position now than we were a year ago, when the omicron wave was at its peak, and more than 70,000 deaths were being reported to WHO each week,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in opening remarks to Friday’s committee meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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