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The director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was reappointed to a second five-year term Tuesday by the U.N. health agency's member countries.

As the World Health Organization prepares to decide whether COVID-19 remains a global emergency, key pandemic indicators show from the virus deaths are rising globally.

While the COVID-19 health emergency is not over, as the World Health Organization says, determining how to measure the end of a pandemic is not a simple equation, experts say.

More than 6.8 million people have died during the outbreak, which has touched every country on Earth, ravaging communities and economies.

Tedros said 56 per cent of people around the world are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, though only nine per cent of people in low-income countries are among that number.

As the WHO mulls whether COVID-19 remains an emergency, some health experts say COVID is still a public health threat and measures to combat it in Canada should continue.  

The UN agency plans to soon publish a guide for countries on how to move from an emergency response to the long-term management of COVID-19.

COVID-19 first emerged in Wuhan, China in 2019 before spreading across the world, leading to lockdowns and other public health measures for more than three years.

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Thursday in a press conference.

WHO's weekly epidemiological report, released late Tuesday, showed that case counts fell 17 per cent worldwide over the last week while deaths globally declined 7 per cent.

WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said it would be "unwise" to conclude from early evidence that Omicron was a milder variant that previous ones.

In Canada, COVID-19 hospitalizations are trending in the right direction — though thousands still remain hospitalized as a result of contracting the virus.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' earlier appeal to put a ``moratorium'' on boosters that has largely been ignored.

As of Nov. 4, the total number of monkeypox cases reported in Canada to date was 1,444, the latest federal government data indicates.

A panel of global health experts are meeting on Thursday to decide if COVID-19 is still an emergency under the WHO's rules.

Moves by several countries to mandate COVID-19 tests for passengers arriving from China reflect global concern that new variants could emerge in its ongoing explosive outbreak.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has previously pressed China to be more forthcoming with data and information related to the origin of the virus.

"Without full access to the information that China has, you cannot say this or that," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus about the origin of COVID-19.

WHO's top emergency expert, said the peak of this wave of infections was still "a number of weeks" away given the very rapid spread of the Omicron variant.

Canada is advising against non-essential international travel in light of the Omicron variant, which is spreading across the world and driving up infections once again.