Covid Virus Expected To Continue To Transmit For "Very Long Time", Says WHO Official: Report
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Populations where more people were previously infected and where vaccination coverage is high are expected to be less impacted by the virus in the future than other populations, Ms Singh told news agency PTI in an interview.
Stressing that the Covid virus may continue to transmit for a "very long time", senior WHO official Poonam Khetrapal Singh says the level of immunity in a community, through vaccination and previous infection, will determine whether it will become endemic in the long run.
WHO's South-East Asia region regional director added that there is need to get to a situation where "we are fully in control of the virus, and not the virus in control of us".
The endemic stage is when a population learns to live with a virus, very different from the epidemic stage when the virus overwhelms a population.
Populations where more people were previously infected and where vaccination coverage is high are expected to be less impacted by the virus in the future than other populations, Ms Singh told news agency PTI in an interview.
