“We’re not going to attain any ranges of inhabitants immunity or herd immunity in 2021,” World Well being Group (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan instructed a briefing on Monday, Deutsche Welle writes. Swaminathan emphasised that measures comparable to bodily distancing, hand-washing and carrying masks proceed to be obligatory in containing Covid-19’s unfold for the remainder of the yr, regardless of the vaccination packages in a number of nations.