"We need to somehow figure out that all of us are either in this together or we're not. You cannot have a pandemic in part of the world and not in others.

And for the record, we're very much in the middle of this pandemic."

-@mvankerkhove at the @WHO #COVID19 briefing last week pic.twitter.com/bM6SO0SLHE

— Global Health Strategies (@GHS) December 4, 2021

UK's progress on Covid now squandered, warns top scientist

The emergence of the Omicron variant shows that the world is "closer to the start of the pandemic than the end", one of Britain's most senior scientific figures has warned, as he lamented a lack of political leadership over Covid.

'Sapere aude'