COVID-19 'will be with us for a long time' - WHO

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against complacency in the fight against the coronavirus, saying the disease "will be with us for a long time".

Doctor Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also warned of upward trends in COVID-19 cases in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central America, and South America. He said that lifting lockdowns could cause infections to "reignite".

Doctor Tedros also defended the WHO's handling of the pandemic.

He said he believed the UN agency had warned the world of COVID-19 early enough.

When asked about calls for his resignation, Dr Tedros said he would keep working "day and night" to save lives.

There have been more than 2.6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally and more than 181,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US.

[Source: BBC]