"It is essential that the international working class understand the continued threat posed by COVID-19 and build a global movement, in unity with scientists and progressive layers of the middle class, fighting for the principles of public health."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/08/okin-j08.html

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Devastating COVID-19 surge in Okinawa exposes lies that the pandemic is over

This alarming development, which raises the possibility that a new and more dangerous variant could be spreading in Okinawa, has gone entirely unreported by all media outlets outside of Japan.

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"It is therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency."

"The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that COVID-19 is nothing to worry about."

https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing---5-may-2023

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WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing – 5 May 2023