In December 2021, while Omicron gave the end-of-year celebrations a taste of deja-vu and the air of "Hunger Games", everyone was asking the question: when would we finally see the end of the tunnel? More than a month later, the fifth wave is still in full swing. But the contagiousness of the variant, combined with the increasing rate of vaccination, gives hope to experts. Would we finally arrive at the famous “collective immunity”, announced since the start of the pandemic as the holy grail? Better yet, can we envisage a return to the "world before", without Covid.
If the (many) experts contacted by ELLE.fr did not wish to comment on a possible date for the end of the pandemic, some heads of state do not hesitate to claim that the worst is behind us. Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, for example, announced on January 20 the end of most restrictions linked to Covid. Britons no longer have to wear masks indoors, telework is no longer mandatory, and the health pass is no longer required to go to a nightclub. A week later, it was Spain that eased the restrictions. And in Denmark, Prime Minister Mette Frediriksen estimated last week that the Covid was no longer a "disease threatening public health": all measures to fight the epidemic are definitively lifted this Tuesday, February 1.
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