WHO chief warns Covid-19 pandemic "nowhere near over"

FILE PHOTO: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, December 20, 2021. R- Reuters

SINGAPORE, Jan. 22 (Xinhua): World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently refuted the narrative that the Omicron variant signals the Covid-19 mitigating into a mild disease, warning that the pandemic is far from over.

"This pandemic is nowhere near over," Tedros told reporters from the WHO's headquarters in Geneva, Singapore's Chinese-language Lianhe Zaobao paper has reported.