Billionaire Bill Gates has warned that the world may not yet have seen the worst of the coronavirus. Gates, the philanthropist and co-founder of tech giant Microsoft, spoke out as the director general of the World Health Organisation also urged caution and said people should remain wary of the virus.
He claims there is a 'way above five per cent' chance of the worst of the pandemic not being seen yet. While insisting he doesn't want to be doom-monger, Gates claimed there could be more dangerous Covid variants around the corner.
"We're still at risk of this pandemic generating a variant that would be even more transmissive and even more fatal," he said in an interview with the Financial Times. "It's not likely, I don't want to be a voice of doom and gloom, but it's way above a 5 per cent risk that this pandemic, we haven't even seen the worst of it."
