Bill Gates says COVID pandemic will end by 2022, world will be 'completely back to normal'

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has predicted ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to be over by end of 2022. During an interview with Polish news channel TVN24, Gates said COVID-19 pandemic will be over by end of next year, adding that world would be back to rmal by that time. Gates had correctly predicted a global health pandemic in 2015, where he had said world is t ready for next big outbreak. 

Gates is heavily invested in vaccine manufacturing and distribution all over world through Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates has pledged a whopping $1.75 billion towards handling global COVID-19 response. Gates’ organization is actively helping World Health Organisation (WHO) in delivering vaccines to low- and middle-income countries via UN health ncy’s COVAX initiative. 

Gates warns of two new disasters

Last month, Gates warned world about two new “disasters” waiting to grip humanity in near future. Gates, while speaking to Derek Muller, host of YouTube channel “Veritasium”, said “climate change” and “bioterrorism” could occur in coming years and could wipe out millions of human beings from earth. Gates said bioterrorism is most dangerous threat lurking out re because somebody, who wants to cause dam, could engineer a virus and spread it. 

Gates has been constantly urging governments to prepare for next pandemic as y would do for war. Gates told Muller that re would be a constant threat of “next pandemic hanging over our heads” unless world takes steps to prevent it. Gates said in future destruction could only be avoided if “pandemic preparedness” was taken as seriously as threat of war. As far as COVID-19 pandemic is concerned, world has lost as many as 2.75 million people in just one year from disease. Several countries have started vaccination programmes, but re are still many poorer nations that are yet to begin immunisation.   

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