In this file photo A patient suffering from mpox sits on a bench at the Kavumu hospital, 30 kms north of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, August 24, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
September 5, 2025
WHO chief lifts mpox international health emergency
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Mpox no longer represents a global public health emergency, the World Health Organisation said Friday, following a sustained decline in cases and deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other affected countries.
“Of course, lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference after deciding to lift the UN health agency’s top emergency status, put in place more than a year ago.
