Coronavirus may never go away, WHO warns

Washington, (ST) – The new coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned.

As some countries around the world begin gradually easing lockdown restrictions imposed in a bid to stop the novel coronavirus from spreading, the WHO said it may never be wiped out entirely.

The virus first emerged in Wuhan in China late last year and has since infected more than 4.2 million people and killed nearly 300,000 worldwide.

“We have a new virus that penetrates humanity for the first time, so it is very difficult to say when it can be defeated,” the WHO quoted the Director of Urgent Health Issues at the World Health Organization, Michael Ryan, as saying in an online news conference in Geneva that, it may never disappear.”

A study published by the lecturer of the National Academy of Sciences lecturer in the United States revealed that the virus can be transmitted by speech and not only by coughing and sneezing, explaining that small saliva particles resulting from speech can remain suspended in the air for 12 minutes, where scientists estimated that every minute of speaking loudly It can generate more than a thousand particles containing the virus that are able to remain in the air for eight minutes or more indoors.

Raghda Sawas