GENEVA, May 14 World health experts issued a grim warning today that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be “far more deadly”, as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped. “We’re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far.
Fri 14th May 2021 | 07:50 PM
Heraklion, Greece, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th May, 2021 ) :Tourists basked in the warmth, sun and crystal waters of Crete on Friday for long-awaited holidays as Greece kickstarted its tourism season after last year s pandemic misery. I hope to forget this damn Covid, said Jil Wirries, a 28-year old studentfrom Hanover, Germany, as he collected his luggage at the island s Heraklion airport. Everything is terrible in Germany. Aside from the weather, everything is closed and people are depressed, including me. I m so happy to be here, he said.
Greece and Europe s other tourism hotspots are vying to woo back visitors after the pandemic wrecked last year s holiday season as countries imposed travel bans and quarantines.
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File: This handout image provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 22, 2020 in Geneva shows WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attending the 147th session of the WHO Executive Board held virtually by videoconference, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. Christopher Black / World Health Organization / AFP
The World Health Organization issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be “far more deadly”, as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped.
“We’re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.