The World Health Organisation (WHO) hopes the coronavirus crisis can be over in less than two years, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of WHO said on Friday, August 22.
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Addressing a virtual press briefing from Geneva on Friday, the WHO chief said that the Spanish flu of 1918 had also taken two years to overcome, but current advances in technology could enable the world to halt the Covid-19 pandemic “in a shorter time”, the BBC reported.
As of Saturday, August 22, the overall number of global coronavirus cases stood at 22,864,873, while the fatalities rose to 797,787.
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The WHO chief reiterated that “Covid-19 is a once-in-a-century health crisis. But it also gives us a once-in-a-century opportunity to shape the world our children will inherit – the world we want”.
