COVID-19 will be endemic, but this may take a long time, the head of the technical group of emergency diseases of the World Health Organization Maria Wang Kerkhov said.
“I think it’s not even worth the question of whether this virus is endemic. Of course, he is on the way to this. But endemic does not mean that he is not dangerous. Endemic usually means that he has a low level of distribution , It is limited geographically and you see outbreaks among unprotected population. I think we are moving in this direction. But we are still in the middle of the pandemic and can not go to the endemic situation, if half of the world is still in a pandemic. I think we are waiting for a long way, ” Said Kerkhov, reports RIA Novosti.
According to her, WHO expects the virus to continue to mutate, adapt to the situation and develop, so that at some point, it is possible to become a seasonal phenomenon.