COVID-19 to coexist with humans for a long time, expert says

Based on the current understanding of COVID-19 will coexist with humans on Earth for a long time, said Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wu said that the pathogenicity the virus variants has been reduced to a very low level overall.

Wu also introduced the criteria for determining that the pandemic is completely over. It is that the number of people infected with COVID-19 has dropped to a low level. There is no cluster of outbreaks, and the total number of cases is so low that people can barely feel it and its impact on health and daily life.