Yes. Devi Sridhar has mentioned it as a goal, fairly sure I have seen others.
We have only eliminated one virus globally (smallpox) but plenty of others have been eliminated nationally. Then to travel to those countries from a country where the disease is endemic you generally need proof of vaccination.
There are also many countries that have basically eliminated the virus at present. They’re not going to want to import the virus just because other countries failed.
Once you have two things the probable future becomes clear: a vaccine, and very fast tests. Combined, they will make it fairly easy for a well governed country to eliminate the virus.
Then, any entering traveler from an endemic country would require proof of vaccination and a quick test at customs to confirm. That would keep the virus out of eliminated countries.
After that it would be a global effort to eradicate the virus country by country, just like we’ve been doing with other diseases such as polio.
A key feature of sars-cov-2 is that it is not like the flu. Coronavirus spreads in clusters and this is containable.
We have only eliminated one virus globally (smallpox) but plenty of others have been eliminated nationally. Then to travel to those countries from a country where the disease is endemic you generally need proof of vaccination.
There are also many countries that have basically eliminated the virus at present. They’re not going to want to import the virus just because other countries failed.
Once you have two things the probable future becomes clear: a vaccine, and very fast tests. Combined, they will make it fairly easy for a well governed country to eliminate the virus.
Then, any entering traveler from an endemic country would require proof of vaccination and a quick test at customs to confirm. That would keep the virus out of eliminated countries.
After that it would be a global effort to eradicate the virus country by country, just like we’ve been doing with other diseases such as polio.
A key feature of sars-cov-2 is that it is not like the flu. Coronavirus spreads in clusters and this is containable.