Asked about the conditions needed for the end of the PHEIC, WHO’s senior epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said: “There’s more work to be done.”
“If there are huge chunks of population that have not had vaccinations, the world still has a lot of work to do,” said WHO’s emergencies director Mike Ryan about the same issue.
Commenting on the recent explosion of COVID-19 infections in China, Ryan said it was not due to the sudden easing by the government of its strict policy, adding that the virus was spreading “intensively” in the nation long before the lifting of restrictions.
He said “control measures” were not stopping the disease.
The challenge for China in getting the virus under control is getting an adequate number of people vaccinated, he said.
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