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Zika no longer a world public health emergency: WHO

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AFP Geneva
Last Updated : Nov 19 2016 | 1:42 AM IST
The World Health Organisation today announced in an online press conference that the Zika virus outbreak no longer poses a world public health emergency.
"The Zika virus remains a highly significant and long term problem, but it is not any more a public heath emergency of international concern," the world health body's emergency committee chair Dr David Heymann said.

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First Published: Nov 19 2016 | 1:42 AM IST

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