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On May 3, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a new strategy for COVID-19 prevention, which seeks to help countries transition from an emergency mechanism to a long-term prevention and control strategy for the disease.
Medical staff inject COVID-19 vaccine to people in Bangkok, Thailand
WHO has published a strategic plan for its COVID-19 response for 2023-2025, the fourth such plan since the first cases were reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.
The new strategy will maintain the two goals of the previous plan, launched in 2022, of reducing the spread of the disease and providing treatment to reduce mortality, morbidity and long-term consequences.
However, the new plan adds a third objective to “support countries as they transition from emergency response to longer-term sustainable management, control and prevention of COVID-19.”
The announcement comes ahead of a meeting of the WHO's COVID-19 Emergency Committee to decide whether to maintain the maximum alert level for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Previously, WHO said that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 still exists but the world is gradually moving out of the emergency phase due to the pandemic. According to WHO, all countries need to learn how to respond to this disease along with other diseases.
According to VNA
