According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), the danger from the coronavirus will be reduced to that of the flu during the course of this year. That said the head of the WHO emergency program, Michael Ryan, on Friday in Geneva (see video above).
“I think we’re getting to the point now where we can see Covid-19 in the same way we see seasonal flu: as a health hazard, as a virus that keeps killing, but one that won’t disrupt our society. stop. I think that will be the case this year,” said Ryan.
The WHO chief expects the pandemic to end
The number of reported weekly corona deaths was around 5,000 last week, for the first time lower than three years ago, when the WHO first spoke of a pandemic. This is a very positive development, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.
The fact that Tedros first uttered the word pandemic on March 11, 2020 shook the world awake. However, the WHO had already declared the highest alert level six weeks earlier, on January 30, when it declared an emergency of international proportions.
At that time, there were fewer than 100 cases outside of China and no deaths. “I am confident that this year we can say that Covid-19 is over as an emergency of international concern,” Tedros said in Geneva.
Source: Krone
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