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Europe could be headed for Covid pandemic 'endgame': WHO 

Once the current Omicron wave is over in Europe, the pandemic situation could be over in the region even as the virus may come back by the end of this year, WHO's Europe director Hans Kluge has said.

It's plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame," AFP quoted Kluge as saying. Once the current Omicron surge is over, Kluge said "there will be for quite some weeks and months a global immunity, either thanks to the vaccine or because people have immunity due to the infection, and also lower seasonality".