
Dec 23, 2020
Coronavirus herd immunity not likely until end of next year, WHO says
The much hoped-for herd immunity against the novel coronavirus is unlikely to occur in many places around the world until the end of 2021, an official with the World Health Organization said this week when warning the next few months will be "critical."
"We are going to approach the beginning of the end, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel," Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO’s chief scientist, told CNBC on Wednesday. "However, there’s still a tunnel we have to go through, and the next few months are going to be very critical."