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After the World Health Organization declared last Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency, the Department of Health, which up to now
“Even though the WHO has already lifted the PHEIC status, they didn’t say the pandemic is already over,” Health officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a briefing.
“Ang Public Health Emergency of International Concern na ini-lift ng WHO is not equated to the pandemic. So even though the WHO has already lifted the Public Health Emergency of International Concern status, hindi po nila sinabing tapos na ang pandemya,” Vergeire said.