WHO’s chief hopes COVID-19 will end by 2023, more than 6 million were killed by the virus with an unofficial count of 4 million from India.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed hope that the COVID-19 pandemic will be over in 2023, media reports said.
“COVID-19 will no doubt still be a major topic of discussion, but I believe and hope that with the right efforts, this will be the year the public health emergency officially ends,” Tedros told a briefing.
The WHO chief added that the world is now in “a much better place” than it was a few years ago due to improvements in clinical care, vaccines, and treatments, media reports said.
“However, there are still serious disparities in “access to testing, treatment, and vaccination,” and ultimately COVID-19 remains “a dangerous virus” for human health, the economy, and society at large”, he added.
The pandemic has gripped the world since early 2020, according to Sputnik news. The first reports of an outbreak in Wuhan, China, emerged in December 2019. More than 6.6 million people have died of the virus worldwide.
COVID-19 has killed more than 6 million people over the world. Peru has the highest COVID-19 death rate in the world with 615 deaths per 100,000 people.
India’s COVID-19 death toll is estimated to be about 4 million which is ten times the official count. Over one million Americans died from COVID
It is believed COVID vaccines saved 20 million lives and prevented a world disaster though a quarter of Americans and others believe others died from the vaccines.
