The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist said the risk of finding a more virulent variant was more than 5%.
The coronavirus pandemic is far from over, Bill Gates has claimed, saying there could be another “even more transmissive and even more fatal”.
“We haven’t even seen the worst,” claims the multi-billionaire.
While he claims that he doesn’t mean to be a voice of doom, the risk of a more virulent variant emerging is well over 5%, the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist told the Financial Times.
“We’re still at risk of this pandemic generating a variant that would be even more transmissive and even more fatal,” he said, adding that longer-lasting vaccines which block infection are urgently required.
Gates, one of the richest people in the world, wrote a book called How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.
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