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In 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) ended its Global Health Emergency regarding COVID-19.

This marked the official conclusion of the international emergency phase of the pandemic.

Although COVID-19 continues to be monitored as a public health issue.

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In October 2022, the Chinese city of Shanghai started administering the inhalable COVID-19 vaccine in what appears to be a world first.

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• On 13 April 2021, Denmark ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first European country to do so fully.

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• In September 2022,  World Bank launched 'Financial Intermediary Fund' for the prevention of epidemics.
• The purpose of this Financial Intermediary Fund is to promote economic efforts in low and middle income countries to prevent epidemics like COVID-19.

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• According to the report released by World Economic Forum (WEF) titled “The future of jobs reports 2020”, COVID-19 and technological advances will disturb around 85 million jobs by 2025.

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United Kingdom (UK) became first ever country to authorize first ever COVID-19 vaccine for the Omicron Variant in August 2022.

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Paxlovid is an antiviral therapy that consists of two separate medications packaged together.

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China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia.

Capital: Beijing

President: Xi Jinping

Currency: Renminbi

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On 13-Dec-2021  Pakistan has confirmed its first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, in Karachi, the country's National Institute of Health (NIH) 

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26 November 2021 WHO declared that the world was facing a new variant of concern: Omicron.

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On 2 December 2020, MHRA gave temporary regulatory approval for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine, becoming the first country to approve the vaccine and the first in the world to approve the use of any COVID‑19 vaccine.

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