Three years on, is COVID still an emergency? Or should we be more worried about the flu?

It has been three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global health emergency. 

The WHO isn't ready to downgrade the status of the pandemic, but the committee has agreed we're at a 'transition' point. 

Meanwhile an outbreak of influenza in mink has highlighted the need for greater animal-human disease surveillance.   

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