WHO: Corona will not disappear, and the acute phase may end 2022

Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization's chief emergency expert, said on Wednesday that the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic may be over next year, but that the coronavirus will not go away.

He added that it is still early days to draw conclusions about the danger of the mutated Omicron, and that things will become clearer when it spreads more widely among the elderly.

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