There are growing calls in Europe for the coronavirus to be treated as an endemic illness, like the flu, as politicians ache for a return to normality.
With that in mind, the British government has had to hold its nerve in recent weeks by not introducing new restrictions on the public, despite what Johnson described as a "tidal wave" of cases caused by omicron.
That means that there will be persistent but low-to-moderate levels of Covid in any given population in future but that the virus should not be causing excessive levels of infection or spreading from country to country . more than half of the people in Europe and Central Asia could be infected with Covid in the next six to eight weeks as omicron spreadsSpeaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Dr. Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer at WHO Europe, said it's too soon to suggest the world is moving into an endemic phase of Covid.
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