May 6, 2023

After the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday declared an end to COVID-19 as a global public health emergency, many Chinese medical experts expressed optimism for further social and economic recovery, while stressing a necessity for long-term monitoring of the virus in the new stage of epidemic prevention.

The end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency means that countries no longer need to implement corresponding social public health measures and prevention and control measures, which will bring new changes to global and China’s transportation, trade and tourism landscape, said Liang Wannian, head of China's COVID-19 response experts' team. 

A range of recent indicators point to a new balance between natural immunity and the virus being formed; in other words, global COVID-19 has achieved important progress, Liang said in an interview with China Media Group on Saturday.

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