The general manager ofWorld Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that the hope is to be able to “stop the pandemic in two years”. “In our current situation with more technology, obviously with more connectivity, the virus has a better chance of spreading, it can move quickly. But at the same time we have the technology and the knowledge to stop it,” Tedros said speaking of the Coronavirus emergency at the conference. print. The Spanish flu that struck in 1918 ended after two years, Tedros also said referring to the pandemic preceding the Coronavirus. According to the data provided by the constantly updated Johns Hopkins University, the cases of Coronavirus registered so far worldwide are 22,754,063: the US remains the most affected country with 5,589,013. Brazil and India follow. The victims are 794,814 to date.
No guarantee we will have a Covid vaccine
The WHO director general also spoke about the Covid vaccine, which for now is not yet available and according to Tedros it is not said will arrive. “No country can get away with it until we have a vaccine against Covid-19. It will be a vital tool and we hope to have one as soon as possible. But there is no guarantee that we will have a vaccine and even if we do have it, it will not end the pandemic by itself ”, the words of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the press conference.
Guerra (WHO): “The message is to protect yourself all”
Ranieri Guerra, deputy director of the World Health Organization, guest on SkyTg24 instead spoke of the new cases of Coronavirus: “The fact that the average age of new cases diagnosed with Covid-19 is enormously lower than that of the epidemic peak, with less serious cases and intensive care admissions, makes us say two things: the elderly have understood the lesson well, they protect themselves, they are careful not to expose themselves to any kind of risk. Young people less “, he explained.” C ‘ is a fundamental problem – he then continued – I would not want to alarm anyone, but we are still in the presence of contamination with a virus that we are slowly discovering. There are probably clinical connotations that we do not know, but which could have medium and long term consequences. So the message is this: please protect yourselves everyone, regardless of age ”.
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