GENEVA, AUG 10
The World Health Organisation declared the H1N1 pandemic officially over on Tuesday, months after many national authorities started cancelling vaccine orders and shutting down hot lines as the disease ebbed from the headlines.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the organisation’s emergency committee of top flu experts advised her that the pandemic had “largely run its course” and the world is no longer in phase six the highest influenza alert level.
“I fully agree with the committee’s advice,” Chan told reporters in a telephone briefing from her native Hong Kong.
The virus has now entered the “post-pandemic” phase, she said.
