Complete eradication of the new type of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, is very unlikely, if not impossible, Michael Ryan, director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergency program, said at a briefing in Geneva.
However, he said it is possible to eliminate the threat that this infection poses to public health. Commenting on whether covid has become a seasonal disease, the WHO program director clarified that it is a “periodic or episodic disease that comes in waves.” “These waves arise to the same extent under the influence of the emergence of new options [коронавируса]which is influenced by the seasons,” Ryan emphasized, adding that COVID-19, like the flu, spreads more easily among large groups of people in close contact with each other, which happens in winter.
“That is, this virus has some seasonal qualities, but it is not seasonal,” the director of the program stated, at the same time noting that one can “predict high activity of this virus in winter.”
WHO Director-General Tedros Adan Ghebreyesus’ announcement on Friday of the end of the COVID-19 emergency does not mean that the disease is over, Ryan said. “We are in a transitional phase and we need to remain vigilant,” he added, stressing that “we are not talking about the end of the coronavirus pandemic as such.” “The good news is that the public health emergency is over,” he said.
Recall, on the eve of WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the organization no longer regards the coronavirus COVID-19 as a particular threat to global health.
Source: Rosbalt
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