Biden: "Covid-19" in its current form "will not last"

US President Joe Biden considered Friday that Covid-19 "as we know it today will not last", at least in its current form, at a time when the United States is facing a new wave of virus infections.

But he admitted to reporters at the White House that "the presence of Covid-19 in our environment and our planet, this will probably continue."

Biden, who built his election campaign more than a year ago on a promise to beat the pandemic, stressed that "we have many additional tools (...) capable of containing Covid-19 and other strains."

"The new normal will not be what we know today. It will be better," he added.

The Biden administration faces numerous criticisms of the lack of testing for COVID-19 and the general lack of detection for infections nationwide, which is facing a fifth pandemic wave with the outbreak of the mutant Omicron.

On Monday, the United States recorded a new record number of daily injuries, exceeding one million.

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