'This virus may never go away,' WHO says

By Emma Farge and Michael Shields
Updated May 14 2020 - 6:26am, first published 6:20am
It will take some time to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO expert Maria van Kerkhove says.
It will take some time to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO expert Maria van Kerkhove says.

The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organisation says, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and calling for a "massive effort" to counter it.

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