The benchmark index of international food commodity prices rose in April for the first time in a year, amid increases in world quotations for sugar, meat and rice, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today.

The number of infections of Covid-19 is steadily declining and the world may be leaving the dangers of the pandemic. There is still an ongoing analysis of what happened during the pandemic so the future spreading of disease can be prevented and the undergoing researching the making the vaccines more effective and curb dangers and side effects will continue. The WHO will continue the work to help us, the human race, live healthier lives through medicine and pharmaceutical aids. The humanitarian work they do is needed and vital.The WHO Director-General has the pleasure of transmitting the Report of the fifteenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) pandemic, held on Thursday 4 May 2023, from 12:00 to 17:00 CET.