The paper says people need to be told to stay on their guard and try to avoid being infected by taking all the precautionary measures possible. Read more at straitstimes.com.
"We are still in the tunnel. We are just beginning to glimpse the light at the end of that tunnel," Director-General of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Thursday , on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
His more realistic assessment should prompt the world to avoid complacency as it is too early and dangerous to drop our guard. Biden's chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci also warned that the world should not be too hasty in jumping to the same conclusion as Biden, warning"We are not where we need to be if we are going to quote 'live with the virus' because we know we are not going to be able to eliminate it, because it is highly transmissible and the immunity that's induced by vaccines or infection is also transient".
No experts can be sure that there won't be a resurgence of the pandemic because of a new variant of the virus which may be highly transmissible and lethal. People need to be told to stay on their guard and try to avoid being infected by taking all the precautionary measures possible.
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