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Video. WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it's no longer 'global emergency'

Updated: 05/05/2023 - 18:02 GMT+2

The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.

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