Lyashko: 2022 May Become the Last Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Ministry of Health hopes humanity can overcome COVID-19.
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine hopes that 2022 will be the last year of the coronavirus pandemic.
Viktor Lyashko
Head of the Ministry of Health of UkraineThe vaccine, direct-acting antiviral drugs and less aggressive strains of SARS-CoV-2 are clear signals that humanity will be able to overcome COVID-19. The emergence of a vaccine and the efforts of all countries around the world to achieve high vaccination coverage give us reason to optimistically hope that 2022 will be the last year of the pandemic.
At the same time, the new wave of illness caused by the Omicron strain has increased the number of cases worldwide from 90,000 to 4 million per month. The new wave reached Ukraine two weeks ago — the number of new coronavirus cases is doubling every week.
However, despite the increase in infections, the number of hospitalizations has risen by only a third. The share of hospitalized patients among the sick is also two times smaller than during the Delta strain wave.
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