The World Health Organization has warned that corona-virus may never go away and populations will have to learn to live with it just as they have HIV, as the global death toll from the disease crosses 302,000, while it has infected 44 Lakh people globally.
Some countries around the world have begun gradually easing lockdown restrictions imposed in a bid to stop the this panademic from spreading, the WHO has said it may never be wiped out entirely.
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“We have a new virus entering the human population for the first time and therefore it is very hard to predict when we will prevail over it,” said Michael Ryan, the WHO’s emergencies director. “This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away,” he told a virtual press conference in Geneva.
“HIV has not gone away – but we have come to terms with the virus.”
More than half of humanity has been put under some form of lock-down since the corona-virus crisis began. In India, despite the lock-down 81,970 people have been infected, while 2,649 people have died, in Jammu Kashmir, 983 people have been infected while 11 people have died.