Coronavirus: WHO Chief, Ghebreyesus gives virus end date

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he hopes coronavirus pandemic will be over under two years, Daily Times understands.

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The world Health Oganization boss chef, speaking in Geneva,said the Spanish flu of 1918 had taken two years to overcome.

Adding that current advances in technology could enable the world to halt the virus “in a shorter time”.

“Of course with more connectiveness, the virus has a better chance of spreading,” he said.

“But at the same time, we have also the technology to stop it, and the knowledge to stop it,” Ghebreyesus noted, stressing the importance of “national unity, global solidarity”.

The flu of 1918 killed at least 50 million people.

Meanwhile nearly 23 million infections have been recorded but the number of people who have actually had the virus is thought to be much higher due to inadequate testing and asymptomatic cases, Coronavirus has so far killed 800,000 people