WHO eyes end to coronavirus pandemic in 'less than two years'

GENEVA - The World Health Organisation said on Friday it hopes the planet will be rid of the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years - faster than it took for the Spanish flu.

Compared to back then, the world today is at a disadvantage due to its"globalisation, closeness, connectedness", which has allowed the novel coronavirus to spread around the world at lightning speed, Tedros acknowledged.By"utilising the available tools to the maximum and hoping that we can have additional tools like vaccines, I think we can finish it in a shorter time than the 1918 flu.

But the deadliest pandemic in modern history, Spanish flu, killed as many as 50 million victims and infected around 500 million around the world between February 1918 and April 2020. That pandemic came in three waves, with the deadliest second wave beginning in the latter half of 1918.

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