COVID-19 pandemic should end for the rich world by end of 2021: Bill Gates

Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates said in an interview the COVID-19 pandemic should end for the rich world by the end of 2021. "We should largely be able to end this thing...for the world at large by the end of 2022," Gates said. "The innovation pipeline on scaling up diagnostics, on new therapeutics, on vaccines is actually quite impressive," he added.