World body downgrades health crisis over three years after first declaring it, noting that most countries have returned to pre-pandemic footing, but warning that threat remains

Expert committee to consider declaring outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern; 14,000 case worldwide so far, with over 7,000 in Europe

World Health Organization director-general says virus is still evolving, warns of unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines and tests

Ghebreyesus says despite Omicron's relative mildness, 'no country is out of the woods yet'

Health organization says 9.5 million confirmed infections is the highest tally since pandemic began, warns Omicron wave is a 'tsunami' overwhelming health systems

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns against 'vaccine hoarding,' sets goal of 70% world vaccination rate by July

UN health agency says Omicron has been detected in two dozen countries, warns travel bans making it hard to share samples of mutated coronavirus strain

At virtual global summit, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the emergence of the new COVID variant shows how 'perilous and precarious our situation is'

The WHO's 'Access to Covid Tools Accelerator' is aimed at developing, producing, procuring and distributing tools to tackle the pandemic, and to fight global inequity in roll-out

Official likens 3rd vaccine doses for those already immunized before millions around globe have received a single shot to giving 'extra life jackets' to those who already have them