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WHO's chief wants the pandemic declared over. Not all experts agree.

Despite the temptation to end the pandemic, some leading health experts say it would be better to keep up the pressure.

The COVID-19 global health emergency is nearing the three-year mark
The COVID-19 global health emergency is nearing the three-year mark (AN/Robert Norton/Unsplash)

GENEVA (AN) – Everyone wants to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, perhaps none more so than the head of the World Health Organization, which first declared COVID-19 had become a global health emergency nearly three years ago.

"We need to move beyond this emergency situation sometime by the end of the year," WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Arete News.

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