The head of WHO recalled that the Spanish flu pandemic that broke out in 1918 lasted for two years.
As for COVID-19, "due to the greater number of connections in the world, there is now a higher chance of spreading the virus" than it was a hundred years ago, he said.
At the same time, he said, we have the technology and knowledge to stop the infection.
Thus, he explained, the complicating circumstances in our time are globalization and a large number of connections, and the advantage is more advanced technologies.
“Therefore, we hope to end this pandemic in less than two years,” TASS quotes Gebreyesus.
Earlier it was reported that the number of cases of coronavirus infection worldwide exceeded 22 million.