“The end of Covid-19 as a global health emergency is not the end of Covid-19 as a global health threat” and the risk of “another variant” or another emerging pathogen with even more deadly potential remains .

This was stated by the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus during the World Health Assembly, meeting in Geneva until May 30 and attended by delegations from all 194 member states, including Italy.

For this reason, the WHO number one added in his speech, "I urge all Member States to engage constructively and urgently in the negotiations on the pandemic agreement and on the International Health Regulations, so that the world never again has to dealing with the devastation of a pandemic like Covid-19 ».

“When the next pandemic knocks, and it will, we must be ready to respond decisively, collectively and fairly,” Ghebreyesus continued.

(Unioneonline/lf)