Eradication of Covid-19 “is no longer a realistic goal”, recognized WHO

The disappearance of Covid-19 from the face of the Earth is not currently a “realistic target“, recognized an official of the Covid-19 of the World Health Organization (WHO).

The doctor WHO Special Envoy David Nabarro said humanity will have to learn to live with the diseasetaken up by Dame Anne Johnson, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at University College London (UCL).

The pandemic has already caused at least 3,723,381 deaths worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease in December 2019. Since then, more than 172,873,850 people have contracted the disease and Although the vast majority of patients recover, a still poorly assessed portion retains symptoms for weeks or even months.

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Nabarro told the British network Sky News this Sunday: “Humanity is going to have to learn to coexist with this virus, to prevent it from getting worse, then from getting worse and causing disease hot spots, and we must be able to do that for the foreseeable future.”

“Eradication is currently not a reasonable goal for the world,” Nabarro admitted.He added: “Whenever there is a sudden surge, it stimulates in the mind the idea that a new variant might appear. It wouldn’t be surprising. “

Nabarro explained that this will be “the model for the future” of the pandemic, adding that the coronavirus “is not going to go away any time soon” and that “There will be variants emerging.”

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The WHO even estimates that if the excess mortality linked to covid-19 is taken into account, directly and indirectly, the balance sheet of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially recorded. A significant portion of less severe or asymptomatic cases remain undetected despite increased testing in many countries.

On Saturday 5 June, 10,020 new deaths and 403,621 infections were recorded worldwide, and the countries which recorded the most deaths according to the latest official reports are India with 2,677, Brazil (1,689) and the Colombia (532). The death toll in the United States stands at 597,377 with 33,357,240 infections, followed by Brazil, with 472,531 deaths and 16,907,425 cases.

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