GENEVA — World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Friday warned governments and citizens not to drop their guard against the COVID-19 pandemic even with vaccines nearing rollout, saying health-care systems could still buckle under pressure.
“Progress on vaccines gives us all a lift and we can now start to see the light at the end of the tunnel,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a Geneva news conference.
“However, WHO is concerned that there is a growing perception that the COVID-19 pandemic is over,” Tedros added.
He said decisions made by citizens and governments would determine the pandemic’s course and when it would end.
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