World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have warned there could be worse pandemics to come, remarking that, depite the severity of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, this might ‘not necessarily the big one’.
These remarks were made at the WHO’s final media briefing of 2020, which emphasised that we as a species will now have to learn to live with the coronavirus.
Watch the recent coronavirus briefing below:
Speaking during the briefing, Dr Mark Ryan, the head of the WHO emergencies program, stated that COVID-19 is likely to become endemic, explaining that countries will have to learn to live with the virus even after vaccines are rolled out.