Expert warning: Covid will not disappear and will always be with humans

Reporter : Zhou Yang / Publisher : Sound Of Hope 

Ref : https://www.soundofhope.org/post/414418 

Extract translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

Recently, Sir Mark Jeremy Walport, a British medical scientist and a member of the Emergency Scientific Advisory Group said that covid (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, Wuhan pneumonia) will not disappear and will always be with humans in some form.

Sir Mark pointed out that the population and tourism density in the world today is much greater than in 1918, which means that the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 or covi) easily spreads. Diseases such as smallpox can be vaccinated to control the pandemic but covi is different, it will not disappear.

Sir Mark said that covi will be with mankind forever in some form.

Sir Mark warned that covid may get out of control again. In recent weeks, cases in European countries have indeed increased, and some places where the epidemic has been successfully contained have shown signs of increasing infection rates.

Sir Mark (born on 5 February 1953) is a British medical scientist and served as the chief scientific adviser to the British government from 2013 to 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he became the CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

As of 11 am on 23 August, at least 805,470 people worldwide have died from the CCP virus, and at least 23,263,670 people have been infected. Since the outbreak of the epidemic in China in December last year, it has spread to 196 countries and regions around the world. The United States is the worst, followed by Brazil, Mexico, India and the United Kingdom.

There were 324,601 infections in the UK and 41,423 deaths. According to the proportion of people who died from the epidemic, Belgium has the highest mortality rate, with 86 deaths per 100,000 people. According to this ratio, Spain has 62 people, Britain has 61 people, and Italy has 59 people. A total of 212,739 deaths in Europe and 3.7 million 1,241 cases were confirmed.

The above figures only reflect a part of the total number of actual infections, because many countries only detect symptomatic or severe cases, or conceal or falsify figures.

1918 influenza pandemic

The 1918 flu pandemic (English: 1918 flu pandemic), also known as the Spanish flu, is an unusually fatal influenza pandemic that broke out between January 1918 and December 1920, causing the world at that time about 500 million people in a quarter of the population infected and 17 to 50 million deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, second only to the Black Death.