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The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed the hope that the coronavirus pandemic will end in less than two years.
The head of WHO recalled that the Spanish flu epidemic that broke out in 1918 lasted for two years.
As for COVID-19, he said that now, due to the greater number of connections in the world, the chance of the virus spreading is higher than 100 years ago.
At the same time, as Gebreyesus noted, we have the technology and knowledge to stop the infection.
He explained that the complicating factor in our time is globalization, and the advantage is better technology.
“Therefore, we hope to end this pandemic in less than two years,” TASS quotes Gebreyesus.
Earlier it was reported that the number of cases of coronavirus infection exceeded 22 million.
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