The World Health Organisation, WHO, says it was unlikely the COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2021. Mr Michael Ryan, Director of WHO’s health emergencies programme says it will be very premature and unrealistic to think that they are going to finish with the virus by the end of the year.
What they can finish with – if they are smart – is hospitalisations, deaths and the tragedy associated with this pandemic.
Ryan says WHO’s focus at present is to keep transmissions as low as possible and vaccinate more and more people.
According to him, delivery of vaccine doses has improved compared to 10 weeks ago although there are ‘huge challenges’ in distributing them.
Also he says, if the vaccines begin to impact not only on death and hospitalisation, but have a significant impact on transmission dynamics and transmission risk, then he believes the will accelerate toward controlling this pandemic.
Meanwhile, the first phase of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines has arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The vaccines arrived the country aboard Emirates flight, which landed at about noon.
