Geneva - Sana
The World Health Organization has expressed its hope that the world will be able to get rid of the Corona pandemic in less than two years and for a faster period than it took to eliminate the outbreak of the Spanish flu in 1918.
The French Press Agency quoted the organization’s director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as telling reporters in Geneva: “We hope to end this pandemic less than two years ago,” pointing out that, compared to the Spanish influenza pandemic, the world today faces the obstacles of “globalization, intimacy and connections” that helped the virus spread Around the world at lightning speed.
He added, "But the world today also enjoys the advantage of having much more advanced technology," adding that by "making use of the available tools to the maximum and hoping to obtain additional tools such as vaccines, I think that we can end the pandemic in less time than it took the Spanish flu."
To date, "Covid 19" has killed about 800,000 people and infected nearly 23 million people around the world.
So far, the Spanish flu is the most deadly pandemic in the history of the modern world, as it caused the death of about 50 million and infected 500 million others around the world between February 1918 and April 1920.