Life won't be normal until 2021, top scientist warns

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It's fair to say that the coronavirus pandemic has been hard to cope with, and many people around the world are suffering due to the lockdown guidelines.

We all live in hope for the day that the quarantine will be lifted, but now a prominent health expert claims that it might be another year before we see life return to normal.

In a recent interview with British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail, Dr. Ali Nouri, President of the Federation of American Scientists, said that we may have to wait until 2021 for restaurants, shops, and bars to open again.

Watch this doctor talk about the coronavirus: 

Nouri stated: "We will certainly have to continue these stay at home orders for I suspect at least through the end of May, or perhaps some time in June. There’s not going to be a time when there is a magic date and then everybody goes back to their lives as normal. That’s not going to happen for a long time."

He continued: "Once June comes around, once July comes around, it’s not going to be the kind of situation where people are going to be going to crowded restaurants and movie theaters. Things are going to be different, I suspect, until we have the vaccine."

The US Surgeon General recently delivered this speech on the coronavirus:

He added: "If we do really do a good job of flattening that curve and reducing the number of transmissions from person to person, we still have to be very careful while we lift those restrictions. What’s really different about this novel coronavirus is that it’s this combination of both being very contagious and then also at the same time being about 10 times more lethal than the flu."

We are urging all of our readers to adhere to the advice from their respective governments and medical bodies, and practice social distancing and self-isolation where required. Together, we will beat this.