The president of United States, Joe Bidenconsiders that the covid-19 pandemic is “over”, although he assures that his Government continues to work against the problems generated by the coronavirus.
“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with the covid and we are working a lot on it. But the pandemic is over”, Said the president in an interview with the program “60 Minutes” of the CBS network, broadcast this Sunday.
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In the interview, recorded at the Detroit auto show, which the president visited last Wednesday, Biden gave as an example that at that event “nobody” wore a mask and all attendees seemed to be in “very good shape.”
this very week, The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, assured that the world “has never been so close to the end of the covid-19 pandemic.″, after registering the lowest number of deaths in the world since the start of the health crisis.
“We are not there yet, but the end of the pandemic is in sight,” Tedros stressed at his weekly press conference.
With more than a million dead, the United States is the country in the world that has registered the most deaths from the covid-19 pandemicstarted in March 2020, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
During the last week, there were an average of about 60,000 infections a day and about 400 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
67.7% of the US population is vaccinated against covid-19, and of that group, 48.6% have received a booster dose.
Last August, the CDC stopped recommending social distancing and quarantines for people exposed to the coronavirus.