<span style="color: #222222;">The WHO Europe director Hans Kluge has said, the  Omicron variant has moved the Covid-19 pandemic into a new phase and could bring it to an end in Europe, Talking to a news agency, Kluge said that Omicron could infect 60 percent of Europeans by March.<br />''<br />'' He said once the current surge of Omicron currently sweeping across Europe subsides,  there will be for quite some weeks and months a global immunity then it is anticipated that Covid-19 may come back towards the end of the year, Top US scientist Anthony Fauci expressed a similar view. He told a news agency, that with Covid-19 cases coming down "rather sharply" in parts of the United States, "things are looking good".<br />''<br />''While cautioning against over confidence, he said that if the recent fall in case numbers in areas like the US's northeast continues, "I believe that you will start to see a turnaround throughout the entire country".<br />''<br />''The WHO regional office for Africa also said last week that cases of Covid had plummeted in that region and deaths were declining for the first time since the Omicron-dominated fourth wave of the virus reached its peak.</span><br />