WHO has admitted that coronavirus can be included in the list of common diseases of mankind.

COVID-19 coronavirus may not go away over time, but it will become another disease that humanity faces every day, said Mike Ryan, chief of the emergency program at World Health Organization (WHO), Wednesday. Trend compared to "Interfax" agency

"This virus may become another ubiquitous virus in our communities, and this virus may not go away. HIV has not gone away," said CNN.

"I am not comparing these two diseases, but I think it is important to be realistic. I do not think anyone can predict if and when this disease will go away," he said.

According to him, the appearance of a vaccine can give hope, but this option requires a number of conditions, including the wide availability of the drug and its effectiveness.

In turn, the director of the WHO Emergency Diseases Unit, Maria Van Kerkkhove, said that, despite all the difficulties, "the trajectory of this outbreak (COVID-19 – IF) is in our hands. " However, he noted that several countries were able to control the spread of the disease.

On Wednesday morning, the American Johns Hopkins University reported that nearly 300,000 people worldwide had died after being infected with COVID-19. In total, during the pandemic, coronaviruses were detected in more than 4.2 million people worldwide, but among them more than 1.5 million people have already recovered.