COVID-19 Virus Will Stay With Us For A While - WHO Envoy

A special envoy of the World Health Organization (WHO), David Nabarro, has said that the ongoing coronavirus crisis will stay with us for a while.

While speaking on NBC, David said that WHO thinks that “it’s going to be a virus that stalks the human race for a quite a long time to come”.

He also added that every human on the planet is affected by the disease, and this has fostered cooperation among countries globally.

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He said, “We are not so sure it will come in waves in the way that influenza does. We think it’s going to be a virus that stalks the human race for a quite a long time to come until we can all have a vaccine that will protect us.

“The key for this particular virus is that every community has a kind of defensive shield, can pick up cases as soon as they appear, isolate them, and stop outbreaks from developing. It’s going to be necessary for every single country to have that capacity.

“We believe what we’ve got, we work with what we’ve got. That’s how we operate in the World Health Organisation.

“We’re right in the middle of this massive, epic struggle. Every single human being in the world is affected by it — businesses are really in trouble, communities are in distress. I really do hope that all nations will not find any reason to make threats or other such things that will undermine our capacity to bring together all the best knowledge that we can find.”