6 months after declaring the coronavirus a global health emergency, WHO director says there may never be a 'silver bullet' for the novel coronavirus

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• World Health Organization's director-general on Monday warned that there may never be a "silver bullet" for the coronavirus. 
• Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' statement comes six months after the world organization declared the novel virus a global health emergency. 
• Tedros warned that despite promising prospects of a vaccine, the world may still need to maintain practices it adapted during the pandemic. 
• More than 18 million coronavirus cases have been recorded worldwide with over 692,000 deaths as of publishing time.
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World Health Organization's director-general on Monday warned that there may never be a "silver bullet" for the coronavirus, six months after the agency declared the novel virus a global health emergency. 

"There's no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' said. 

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