The head of the World Health Organization has tempered his assertion that the end of the Covid-19 pandemic was near, warning that declaring the crisis over was "still a long way off".
Last week, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the world had "never been in a better position to end the pandemic...
The end is in sight". And US President Joe Biden went further in an interview broadcast on Sunday, declaring that the pandemic in the United States "is over".
But speaking to the media again today from the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Dr Tedros appeared less upbeat, making clear that "being able to see the end, doesn't mean we are at the end".