The World Health Organisation head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said that he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be over in less than two years. Further, WHO's emergencies chief Dr Michael Ryan observed that the Spanish flu spread across the globe in three distinct waves and that the second wave, which started during the fall of 1918, was the most devastating. However, he didn't see any such pattern emerging with this virus. Ryan said that while pandemic viruses often settle into a seasonal pattern, that didn't appear to be the case for the coronavirus. The coronavirus pandemic has affected more than 22 million people and killed 7,96,000 people worldwide.

Source: dna August 22, 2020 02:26 UTC