WHO - foreseeable future6 Jun 2021 15:57
It will be a while until we see the end of Covid, the World Health Organisation's special envoy on the disease has told Sky News.
"Eradication is currently not a reasonable target for the world," Dr David Nabarro said.
"Humanity is going to have to learn how to co-exist with this virus, preventing it from spiking and then surging and causing hotspots of disease, and we're going to have to be able to do this for the foreseeable future," he added.
"This virus isn't going away anytime soon, there will be variants emerging."
His comments were echoed by Dame Anne Johnson, president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, also on the channel.