End of Covid pandemic is 'in sight': WHO chief

A woman walks past a mural depicting a frontline worker amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Dublin, Ireland, January 12, 2022. Photo by Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne

The world has never been in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic outlook yet on the years-long health crisis which has killed over six million people.

"We are not there yet. But the end is in sight," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a virtual press conference.

That was the most upbeat assessment from the U.N. agency since it declared an international emergency in January 2020 and started describing Covid-19 as a pandemic three months later.

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