The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that it believes that the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely to come to an end by the end of 2021.
Director of the organisation’s health emergencies programme, Michael Ryan said this during a press briefing on Tuesday and said that the virus still had the “upper hand.”
“I think it will be very premature and unrealistic to think that we are going to finish with this virus by the end of the year.
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“What we can, if we are smart, finish with is the hospitalisations and the deaths and the tragedy associated with this pandemic,” Ryan added.
“The WHO’s focus at present was to keep transmissions as low as possible and vaccinate more and more people.
“The situation regarding the delivery of vaccine doses had already improved compared to 10 weeks ago, although there were huge challenges in distributing them.
“If the vaccines begin to impact not only on death and not only on hospitalization, but have a significant impact on transmission dynamics and transmission risk, then I believe we will accelerate towards controlling this pandemic,” Ryan said.
