VIVA The government has prepared various steps to anticipate the scenario of the development of the COVID-19 pandemic in the long term, including the potential for this outbreak to become endemic.
The government invites the public to always implement health protocols by using masks and hastening vaccinations as one of the first steps towards a new order of life side by side with COVID-19.
Since March 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) has designated COVID-19 as a pandemic due to its exponential rate of spread globally. Therefore, COVID-19 is not categorized as an epidemic because it is not limited to a single geographic area.
WHO has stated that it is very likely that COVID-19 will be classified as endemic in the future, like Malaria or Dengue Fever.
COVID-19 can be categorized as endemic if it continues to be present constantly in the population in a certain geographic area, with a more predictable rate and pattern of transmission.
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