What WHO's announcement on COVID-19 no longer being a public health concern means | In Focus podcast
Dr Soumya Swaminathan speaks to us about the WHO announcement that COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency, and if this will affect the government’s policy for COVID vaccination.
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Show Notes
The recent announcement from the World Health Organization that COVID-19 would no longer be considered a public health emergency of international concern sort of threw a spanner in the works.
Was this a message of hope? Is it true that COVID is really over? What about vaccination or masking? The questions were aplenty. Today we have with us Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, former chief scientist of the WHO and present chairperson of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, to bring some clarity to the issue.
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