Bill Gates thinks ‘acute phase’ of pandemic will end in 2022 despite Omicron


Gates, the world’s fourth-richest person, worth US$135bil (RM569bil), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, also touched on disinformation and the role it’s played in discouraging the vaccine. — Reuters

To Bill Gates, 2021 did not bring as much improvement to the pandemic as he had hoped.

With more Covid-19 deaths this year than in 2020, the delta variant and challenges with vaccine uptake, progress has been underwhelming, the billionaire indicated in a year in review post on his blog Tuesday.

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