Parts of the world are starting to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic to cautiously resume some sort of normal life, but the new coronavirus will pose significant risks until vaccines are developed, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) top emergencies expert said.

Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO emergencies programme, said while many countries are still in the eye of the storm, others were beginning to show it is possible to contain the disease to some extent.

“In that sense, there’s hope,” Ryan told Reuters in an online interview from Geneva.

“At a global level the situation is still very, very serious but the pattern of the disease and the trajectory of the virus is very different in different parts of the world right now,” he said.

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