Covid hasn’t ended as more variants expected, warns WHO chief scientist

The Chairman of the World Health Scientist Souya Swaminathan on Friday said that the world was not at the end of the Covid pandemic because there would be more variants of Coronavirus, according to Reuters.

He said the world had seen a growing virus and mutated. “So we know there will be more variants, more variants of worries, so we are not at the end of the pandemic,” Swaminathan said as quoted by Reuters.

Swaminathan said this when talking to reporters in South Africa, where he visited vaccine manufacturing facilities with whom Director General of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Swaminathan said no one could predict when the pandemic would end. “Don’t declare a pandemic because some people do now. Stupid to bring down all the precautions we have taken so far. We have to continue it and hopefully at the end of 2022, we will be in a much better position. Variants can appear anywhere and You go back to the square. We still have to be careful, “he said.

The head of scientist said the world would learn how to live with viruses, such as other respiratory viruses. “We will have a much better surveillance system globally. We know that even if you have an ordinary respiratory infection or flu, it’s good to keep your mask. We have to take it to the future,” he told Bloomberg.