American entrepreneur, the founder of Microsoft bill gates said that the world will be able to return to normal not earlier than in one or two years, even if the epidemic can be brought under control.
"We will not go back to normal sooner than after one or two years. We can get out of this first phase, developing a system that will function without the risk of a return to the exponential progression of the epidemic," said gates in an interview with the French newspaper Figaro.
The businessman added that due to the "systems testing and tracking of the country will be able to quickly identify areas of contamination and control them," but people will not be able to return to a completely normal life, because they "are very concerned about the possibility of being infected, and dramatically change their way of life".
"Even the government’s decisions will not make them go to the stadiums as long as there is no proven treatment or vaccine has made death only a residual risk," gates said.
Gates stressed that despite the fact that to develop treatments it is very important, only the vaccine will be able to ensure the return to normal life.
"it is Absolutely necessary to work on methods of treatment that can begin to be used much easier than vaccines, because there is no need to test them on such a Grand scale… But that the world returned to normal, we need either very effective treatment or vaccine. The vaccine is very important because this is probably the way we will go back to normal life" gates added.
World health organization March 11 announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 2.8 million cases of infection, over 198 thousand people died.
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