The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 81 million people around the world may not be ‘the big one’, and that the world needs to prepare for a potentially more serious pandemic.
“This is a wake-up call,” said Michael WHO’s emergency chief during the latest news from the health agency conference of the year Monday.
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“This pandemic was very serious. “It has spread extremely fast around the world and it has affected every corner of this planet, but it is not necessarily the big one,” Ryan said.
Ryan said that although the coronavirus is highly contagious and has deprived ‘so many people of loved ones’, its mortality rate is lower compared to other emerging diseases.
“From our perspective, the planet is fragile. We live in an increasingly complex global society. These threats will continue. “If there is one thing we need to take out of this pandemic with all the tragedies and loss, it is that we need to recover,” he said.
As COVID-19 vaccines are being developed around the world, WHO officials also said that the likely scenario is that the coronavirus will become another endemic that will be a low threat to humans in the coming years. Ryan said the existence of a vaccine is no guarantee of eradicating the disease.
“Fortunately, we have tools to save lives, and this combined with good public health will enable us to learn to live with COVID-19,” said David Heymann, chair of the WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group. for infectious hazards, during the briefing Monday.
It is almost a year since the first reports of the coronavirus started spreading after the virus originated in China.
The U.S. has been hardest hit by the virus, with more than 19 million people infected and about 335,000 dead in the course of the pandemic.
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