COVID Included as Part of MoHW’s Monitored Infectious Diseases under Surveillance

Last week, the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 is no longer deemed a public health emergency of international concern, though it did hasten to add that the shift in status does not mean that COVID-19 is over as a global health threat. In tandem with the guidance, the Ministry of Health and Wellness will include COVID as part of its monitored infectious diseases, which it keeps under continuous surveillance. The ministry’s last recorded COVID-related death was in October of last year, and there have been no COVID-related hospitalizations for over six weeks, with the country’s positivity rate standing at one point two percent. Despite all that, the W.H.O advises everyone to be mindful that COVID is still a deadly virus that claims lives every few minutes in the world.