Dr. Mike Ryan, the head of the World Health Organization emergencies program, said on Wednesday that COVID-19 may become “another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away.” He warned the world has a “long, long way to go” to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control, despite tentative steps in many countries to begin restarting normal life.
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