The World Health Organisation has said that COVID-19 continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern, its highest form of alert.
The WHO also acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic is probably at a transition point.
In a press statement issued on Monday after the 14th meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, held on January 27.
The committee agreed that COVID-19 remains a dangerous infectious disease with the capacity to cause substantial damage to health and health systems.
The WHO first declared that COVID-19 was a global health emergency on January 30, 2020, with over 752 million cases with more than 684 million deaths recorded so far.
Meanwhile, the global health body urged countries to remain vigilant and continue reporting surveillance and genomic sequencing data.
