Social distancing measures and quarantines are no longer recommended for people exposed to the coronavirus
United States President Joe Biden considers that the pandemic is “over” covid-19, although he assures that his Government continues to work against the problems generated by the coronavirus.
“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with covid and we are working hard on it. But the pandemic is over,” the president said in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” show, broadcast this Sunday.
In the interview, recorded at the Detroit auto show, which the president visited last Wednesday, Biden gave as an example that in that event “nobody” wore a mask and everyone in attendance seemed to be in “really good shape.”
This same week, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, assured that the world “It has never been so close to the end of the covid-19 pandemic“, after registering the lowest number of deaths in the world since the beginning of the health crisis.
“We are not there yet, but the end of the pandemic is in sight,” Tedros stressed at his weekly press conference.
With more than a million dead, The United States is the country in the world that has registered the most deaths by the covid-19 pandemic, which began in March 2020, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
During the last week, there were an average of 60,000 daily infections and about 400 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
67.7% of the US population is vaccinated against covid-19 and, of this group, 48.6% have received a booster dose.
Last August, the CDC stopped recommending social distancing and quarantines for people exposed to the coronavirus.