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‘Covid-19 will eventually become a common cold’
Updated On: 12 January, 2022 07:43 AM IST | London | Agencies
Expert says daily deaths from it in the UK are less than half the rate in a flu year
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Residents in line at a CityMD location to receive a COVID-19 test in the Bed-Stuy neighbourhood of Brooklyn on January 10 in NYC. Pic/AFP
The UK may be on the brink of beating the Covid-19 pandemic, with daily deaths currently running at less than half the rate expected in a bad flu year, the media reported.
According to Professor Paul Hunter, an infectious disease expert from the University of East Anglia, the Covid pandemic will become ‘endemic’ after the Omicron wave subsides in the country, provided no other variants emerge, Daily Mail reported. Yet Hunter noted that Covid would “almost certainly” get weaker every year as people develop natural immunity and eventually become a common cold that kills only the very vulnerable further down the line.
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