How and when will this pandemic end? We asked a virologist
- We may be approaching a saturation point in terms of coronavirus infections in some of the worst-hit countries.
- Eventually, the virus will run out of people to infect.
- But there are still many unknowns when it comes to this virus.
More than one-third of the world’s population is now in lockdown as the world battles the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. We spoke to Belgian virologist Guido Vanham, the former head of virology at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, and asked him: how will this pandemic end? And on which factors might that depend?