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The world has a “long, long way to go” to control the coronavirus pandemic, despite tentative steps in many countries to start restarting normal life, the WHO’s leading emergency expert warned.
- Reuters Geneva
- Last update: May 14, 2020 8:34 AM IST
Mike Ryan, head of the World Health Organization’s emergency program, told reporters on Wednesday that the new coronavirus may become “another endemic virus in our communities. And this virus will never go away.”
The world has a “long way to go” to control the coronavirus pandemic, despite tentative steps in many countries to start restarting normal life, the World Health Organization’s top emergency expert warned on Wednesday.
Dr. Mike Ryan said risks of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, remained high at “national, regional and global levels.”
He said “very significant control” of the virus was required to lower the current risk assessment.
Governments around the world are struggling with the question of how to reopen their economies while still containing the virus, which has infected 4.29 million people, according to a Reuters count, causing more than 290,000 deaths.
“There is a magical thinking going on that locks work flawlessly and that unlocking locks will be great. Both are fraught with danger,” Ryan warned.
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