Questão 58 - Feevale Medicina 2021/1

UK scientific advisor says coronavirus unlikely to be eradicated

 

    The coronavirus will be around for “evermore” as it is unlikely it will be eradicated, a British scientist on the
government’s advisory committee for the pandemic said on Wednesday, although a vaccine would help
improve the situation.
    Britain, like other countries in Europe, is currently in the grip of a resurgence in COVID-19 infections, with
[5] much of the country under local restrictions and more than 21,000 daily cases reported on Tuesday.
    “We are going to have to live with this virus for evermore. There is very little chance that it’s going to
become eradicated,” John Edmunds, a member of Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), told
lawmakers.
    Although the coronavirus will be around indefinitely, Edmunds said that the prospect of a vaccine towards
[10] the end of the winter should impact the government’s strategy now.
    “If vaccines are just around the corner then, in my view, we should try and keep the incidence as low as
we can now, because we will be able to use vaccines in the not too distant future,” he said.
    He said the UK had played a “clever game” in investing in different coronavirus vaccines. Britain has signed
supply deals for six different COVID-19 vaccines, with 340 million doses secured across different types of
[15] technologies.
    “I think we will be in a reasonable position in months,” he said. “I don’t think we’re going to be vaccinating
everybody, but to start, maybe the highest risk people, healthcare workers and so on."

(Adaptado de: SMOUT, Alistair. UK scientific advisor says coronavirus unlikely to be eradicated. In: Reuters. Data de publicação: 21 out. 2020. Disponível em: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-sage/uk-scientific-advisor-says-coronavirus-unlikely-to-be-eradicatedidUSKBN276174. Acesso em: 21 out. 2020).

Consider the following sentences.

 

1. He said the coronavirus __________ be around indefinitely. (line 09)
2. They told me we __________ going to have to live with __________ virus for evermore. (line 06)
3. He argued we __________ be in a reasonable position in months. (line 16)
4. He said he __________ we __________ going to be vaccinating everybody. (lines 16-17)

 

Check the correct option to fill respectively in the gaps with the correct form of reported speech.