WHO expert warns pandemic ‘nowhere near finished’ as Covid surges across world

We are not yet close to a world without Covid-19, World Health Organisation (WHO) special envoy on Covid-19 David Nabarro has said. Addressing a Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh symposium, he said that new variants will be a 'regular' occurrence whilst Covid-19 continues to circulate. 'The pandemic is nowhere near finished,' Dr Nabarro said. 'Each week we have seen four and a half million cases being reported and know those are an enormous underestimate. 'And we are still seeing a really significant number of deaths - nearly three million.