Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday the deadly coronavirus will not disappear completely and will keep infecting people for years to come, urging citizens to carry on with their lives in this "new normal" while promising to reopen the country’s borders.Addressing the nation on the government’s COVID-19 plan, Lee said the COVID-19 pandemic will remain with the humankind and become endemic."One day this global pandemic will subside.
But I do not expect COVID-19 to disappear. It will remain with humankind, and become endemic. The virus will continue to circulate in pockets of the global population for years to come.