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Social distancing may be needed till 2022 to keep coronavirus at bay

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New Delhi: Amid concerns over how long Covid-19 may persist in the human population, a new study led by researchers from Harvard University suggests social distancing measures may be needed intermittently till 2022 in the absence of any potential vaccine or drug.

The study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Wednesday uses data from the US on seasonality from known coronaviruses which infect humans to model the potential dynamics of covid-19 over the next five years.

According to the team, it was unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes covid-19 – would behave like its closest cousin, SARS-CoV-1 and be eradicated by intensive public health measures after causing a brief pandemic. “Instead, it does seem likely that

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