WHO declares end to Covid global health emergency, but experts warn of continued need for vigilance.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has ended the emergency it declared for Covid-19 more than three years ago, a milestone in the fitful emergence from a pandemic that has killed millions of people around the world and upended daily life in previously unimaginable ways. The decision changes little in practical terms, but it is a significant moment in the evolving human relationship with the novel coronavirus. The virus will continue to have pandemic status according to the WHO, much as HIV does.