What next for Covid-19 after five million deaths?
The true number of fatalities is believed to be far higher than the five million based on daily reports provided by health authorities in each country.
"This figure seems more credible to me," Pasteur Institute epidemiologist Professor Arnaud Fontanet told AFP. That's why the next stages will vary according to the level of vaccination in each country and the efficacy of the vaccines used. "For industrialised countries, I believe we are heading for seasonal Covid epidemics, which will perhaps be a little more severe than the flu epidemic in the first years before settling down," said Fontanet.
Nations that adopted a zero Covid strategy to eradicate the disease face failure because of the highly contagious nature of the Delta variant. Delta has swept aside previous variants including Alpha and has stopped new strains such as Mu or Lambda from spreading.
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