COVID-19 and smallpox pandemics could be eliminated in 2023

The World Health Organisation plans to eliminate the coronavirus and monkeypox pandemics within the next year. This is said to be because mortality rates from both diseases are declining significantly.

The head of the organisation, Tedros Gebreyesus, said that nevertheless, humanity could face a number of challenges in 2023. This is due to the low level of vaccination against coronavirus in some countries, as well as the lack of diagnostic and treatment facilities.

A smallpox epidemic was reported in 2022 in more than 82 000 patients in 110 countries worldwide, and the disease was declared a pandemic in July.

Since then, the spread of the infection on Earth has been reduced by more than 90 per cent. If this trend continues, the pandemic will be declared over in 2023. It is also noted that this is the situation with the Ebola epidemic in Uganda.

P.S. But droughts and famine in Africa, unabated cholera epidemics in 29 countries, obesity, which kills more than 8 million people every year, malnutrition, increasing obesity, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease, slow progress on HIV, malaria and tuberculosis global challenges pose serious threats to human health.