US President Biden: Coronavirus Pandemic Can Be Taken Under Control

Joe Biden. Photo: Pavel Bednyakov / RIA Novosti

US President Joe Biden expressed confidence in the improvement of the COVID-19 situation. RIA Novosti reports.

The politician said that the coronavirus pandemic could be brought under control. “We will be able to control this. The new norm is not what is happening now, it will be better, ”he said.

Biden said the coronavirus infection was “not here to stay,” although it will continue to be present. He added that there are currently tools to tackle the pandemic.

Earlier in January, the director of the US National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, predicted an increase in hospitalizations in the country due to the emergence of the omicron strain of the coronavirus. According to him, the likelihood of a sharp increase in hospitalizations of patients due to the spread of the omicron-strain of coronavirus remains, although so far this figure is growing at a much slower pace than the number of detected cases of infection.