There are no "silver bullets" or perfect answers to working through this pandemic, Dr Mike Ryan, head of the World Health Organisation's Health Emergency Programme, has said.
Dr Ryan was speaking alongside Minister for Overseas Development Aid and Diaspora Colm Brophy in an online discussion as part of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA's) 2021 Development Matters series, supported by Irish Aid. "We can't vaccinate our way out of this, we can't lockdown our way out of this, what we have to do is have coherent, multilayered strategies that get us through to the end of this pandemic," Dr Ryan told the event.