WHO warns that Covid-19 can become an endemic virus and “never go away”



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The agency’s experts pointed out that it is “important to be realistic when talking about this new pandemic, and assured that nobody can predict when it will disappear.”

The World Health Organization confirmed on Wednesday that Covid-19 could become another endemic virus and never disappear in our communities, such as HIV and other non-eradicated diseases.

The WHO emergency expert, Mike Ryan, commented through a press conference offered by the internet, that it is important to be realistic when talking about this new pandemic, and assured that nobody can predict when it will disappear.

“It is important to establish it: the virus can become another endemic virus in our communities and it may never disappear (…) I think it is important that we are realistic and it does not seem to me that anyone can predict when the disease will disappear,” said the expert from according to La Tercera.

Meanwhile, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus added that “it is everyone’s problem and we should all contribute to stopping this pandemic”, while epidemiology, Maria van Kerkhove, stated that “we need to have the mentality that it will take some time to get out of this pandemic. “

According to detailed information from the body, more than 100 potential vaccines are being worked on, including clinical trials, however, experts worldwide have indicated that they have difficulties in finding effective immunization to face the coronavirus.



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