A panel of global health experts will meet on Thursday to decide if COVID-19 is still an emergency under the World Health Organization's rules, a status that helps maintain international focus on the pandemic.
There is no consensus yet on which way the panel may rule, advisors to the WHO and external experts told Reuters.
One source close to negotiations said lifting the "public health emergency of international concern", or PHEIC, label could impact global funding or collaboration efforts. Another said that the unpredictability of the virus made it hard to call at this stage. Karim, who is not on the WHO panel, said if the emergency status is lifted, governments should still maintainOthers said it was time to move to living with COVID as an on-going health threat, like HIV or tuberculosis.
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