PAHO explains what it requires Mexico to declare an end to the emergency by Covid-19:
- If the country has low community transmission
- High medical response capacity
- High vaccination coverage
- Very low death toll
- Very few cases of active detection of Covid-19
Then you may find yourself in a position to consider putting a end to the health emergency.
This was explained by Dr. Ciro Ugarte, director of Health Emergencies of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), during his weekly update conference on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region.
When questioned whether Mexico can declare an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, PAHO specified that this declaration does not correspond to Mexico or to any individual country, but the end of a health emergency does.
How is COVID doing in other parts of the world?
The number of new cases of COVID-19 confirmed cases worldwide fell by almost a quarter last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Thursday, continuing the decline that began in late March.
The Geneva-based United Nations health agency said in a weekly report that there had been reports of almost 5.59 million cases between April 11 and 17, 24 percent less than the previous week. The number of new deaths fell by 21 percent to 18,215.
The WHO noted that new cases fell in all regions, although the decline was only 2 percent in the Americas. The report was dated Wednesday night and sent to reporters on Thursday.
“These trends should be interpreted with caution, as several countries are progressively changing their COVID-19 testing strategieswhich leads to lower numbers of tests performed and consequently in lower numbers of detected cases,” the agency said.
The countries with the highest numbers reported last week were South Koreawith more than 972 thousand; Francewith 827 thousand, and Germany, with more than 769 thousand, indicated the WHO. The highest death tolls were recorded in the United States, with 3,076 people; Russia, with 1,784, and South Korea, with 1,671.
THE CASE OF SHANGHAI
While the Chinese city of Shanghai is in its fourth week of lockdown, the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to rise. The authorities reported on Monday (04.18.2022) about 22,248 new infections and three new deaths in the Chinese city. According to official records, there were no virus-related deaths since 2020.
The authorities of Shanghai they were intended to stop the spread of the virus until this Wednesday (20.04.2022), outside the quarantine areas. However, many citizens oppose the current restrictive measuresand experts say the growing discontent could hamper the Asian giant’s “zero covid” strategy.
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