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WHO hopes COVID pandemic will be over in under two years: Director general

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WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he hopes the COVID-19 pandemic will last less time than the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people in two years. SOUNDBITE from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

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