Sanitation workers in Beijing, China (REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File)

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that plans to lower its maximum alert level for COVID-19 this yearbelieving that the epidemic could soon represent a seasonal influenza threat.

“We’ve reached a point where we can look at COVID-19 the same way we look at seasonal flu, which is a health threat, a virus that will continue to kill, but a virus that won’t. disrupt our society or our hospital systems,” the head of WHO’s emergency programs told reporters. Michael Ryan.

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