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Covid-19: What can we expect from the pandemic in 2022?

In the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, expect more variants, lower death rates and some continuing restrictions

By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson and Helen Thomson

4 January 2022

Theme park visitors show聽their covid passes in France, July 2021

Theme park visitors show聽their covid passes in France, July 2021

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While the pandemic is unlikely to聽fully end in 2022, we can hope to聽see some positive changes: more vaccine coverage, improved treatments and reduced mortality. But mitigation measures, such as聽mask wearing and social distancing, will remain crucial for聽controlling outbreaks and restricting the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead on covid-19 at the聽World 午夜福利1000集合 Organization (WHO), dislikes the phrase 鈥渓earning to live with the virus鈥. She says: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think we should learn to live…

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