"It's plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame," Dr Hans Kluge told AFP in an interview, adding that Omicron could infect 60 per cent of Europeans by March.
Top United States scientist Anthony Fauci expressed similar optimism on Sunday, telling ABC News talk show"This Week" that with Covid-19 cases coming down"rather sharply" in parts of the United States,"things are looking good". The Omicron variant, which studies have shown is more contagious than Delta but generally leads to less severe infection among vaccinated people, has raised long-awaited hopes that Covid-19 is starting to shift from a pandemic to a more manageable endemic illness like seasonal flu."There is a lot of talk about endemic but endemic means ... that it is possible to predict what's going to happen. This virus has surprised more than once so we have to be very careful," Dr Kluge said.
Dr Kluge said the priority was to stabilise the situation in Europe, where vaccination levels range across countries from 25 to 95 per cent of the population, leading to varying degrees of strain on hospitals and health-care system.
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