The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announed “with hope” that Covid-19, from which there have been six million related deaths worldwide, is “no longer a global health emergency”.
However, he added that this “does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat”. In May last year, WHO experts said the end of the pandemic was “in sight” as it published policy briefs for governments to follow on infection control, testing, vaccination and misinformation.
In April we also saw the NHS Covid app, which once dictated everything from if you could enter a restaurant to who you were allowed to spend Christmas with, switched off for the final time. It will be discontinued completely on May 16.
Covid-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11 2020. The virus triggered lockdowns and travel restrictions not just in the UK but across the world.