WHO: This virus may never go away


From left, World Health Organization Health Emergencies Programme Director Michael Ryan, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove attend a daily press briefing on Covid-19 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020.- AFP

GENEVA (Xinhua):- World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Wednesday (May 13) that it was hard to predict when the pandemic would be over, but countries should stay positive and collaborate closely.

"We have a new virus entering the human population for the first time, and therefore it is very hard to predict when we will prevail over it." Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said on Wednesday at a press conference in Geneva.

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