Manila, Aug. 2 -- The World Health Organization noted that the world must learn to live with the coronavirus and fight it with the tools it has, despite efforts to develop a vaccine going on at record speed.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the remarks at a high-level committee meeting six months after it declared coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) a public health emergency.
"It's sobering to think that six months ago when you (the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee) recommended I declare a public health emergency of international concern, there were less than 100 cases and no deaths outside China," Tedros said on Friday.
He said that since the onset of the virus, many scientific questions had been resolved, a...