WHO is Hoping COVID-19 Outbreak Will End in Less Than 2 Years

Heard all the horror stories about Covid-19 being part of our future until 2024?

Well, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has spoken and for once, it’s not a “doom and gloom” message.

WHO is Hoping COVID-19 Outbreak Will End in Less Than 2 Years

Reader Bao: Wait, what?! *slaps own face* Oww…

Yes, that’s right, the Covid-19 end-date has just been shifted forward by a good couple of years.

On 21 Aug, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that if the world unites and come up with a vaccine, the Covid-19 pandemic could end in less than 2 years.

According to him, the “Spanish flu” took two years to stop back in 1918.

Given that it’s 2020 and our technology has improved so much since then, he’s confident that we can overcome this even earlier.

He urges that right now, the world should focus on “national unity” and “global solidarity”.

As for why he’s emphasising on “global solidarity”, it could be because of WHO’s appeal for more funds recently.

WHO Says It Needs More Money to Fight COVID-19; Require Billions of Dollars

Just less than 2 weeks back, WHO said that they needed more money to fight Covid-19.

The fight, WHO says, requires a lot of money and the WHO is only “10%” into the billions of dollars needed.

The main reason for the appeal is the ACT accelerator, which seems to be cheem speak for charity work.

Based on the brochure available on WHO’s website, the accelerator aims to give all countries equal access to Covid-19 tools and resources that can help fight the virus.

The WHO says that there is significant progress when it comes to developing the tools needed for the fight but not all countries will get them based on “past lessons”.

This is “unacceptable” to the WHO, which decided to let all countries access the different tools available through the accelerator.

Seeing how many countries and cities are fighting the second (or even the third) wave of Covid-19 because they’ve opened up their borders to other countries, it seems that they are right.

As long as any country in the world cannot stamp out Covid-19, the coronavirus is here to stay.

Meanwhile, Singapore is funding various studies and research into possible vaccines and even have first claim to one of the seven ‘finalist’ vaccines.

Rules on dining-out during Phase Two has also been tightened and we are now in the process of seeing how else the economy can be stimulated besides the easing of restrictions along the borders.