Coronavirus - All Quotes about the COVID-19 pandemic

Now, more than any time in our history, we will be judged by our capacity for compassion. Our ability to come through this, won't just be down to what government or businesses do, but by the individual acts of kindness that we show each other.

Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.

Last year, Covid-19 kept us apart. This year, we are finally together again.

This pandemic is exhausting all of us. We're tired of it. But it doesn't help. We have to face it together and, in many cases, practice social distancing.

Most likely, by the end of this winter, everyone in Germany will be either vaccinated, recovered, or dead.

There will not be another lockdown.

I recommend taking the vaccines. I happen to take the vaccine - if it doesn't work you'll be the first to know.

We all want normality back, but we don't get normality back by ourselves - we only get it as a community and that's why we need to get more people vaccinated. Every vaccination is a small step towards normality for everyone.

If we can't reopen our society in the next few weeks when we will be helped by the arrival of summer and the school holidays, we must ask ourselves "when will we be able to reopen?"

After I promised 200 million Covid-19 shots in the first 100 days, we will have provided over 220 million Covid shots in those hundred days. Thanks to the help of all of you.

We have to act now. Now. In all areas.

And on Monday the 12th I will be going to the pub myself - and cautiously but irreversibly raising a pint of beer to my lips.

We can't keep up this strict lockdown for all of winter. Our society couldn't stand that.

Normally developing a vaccine takes up to 10 years. We developed a vaccine in just nine months. We've already begun a nationwide vaccination program, and we’re sending the vaccine all over the world. The world will benefit will benefit, and everybody’s calling to thank me.

In 2021, we will continue our fight against Covid-19 with a renewed sense of hope. Canadians have already started to receive doses of safe and effective vaccines.

The first few months of the year will be difficult until at least the spring. Hope is there in this vaccine that human ingenuity has brought about in just one year.

The painful events that humanity had to suffer through during the past year, especially the pandemic, show how important it is for us to care for others and to be compassionate.

A safe and effective vaccine will be available to all Australians and will be a key step in our recovery in 2021.

There's no denying that the coming days and weeks will be tough for our country - and that the situation won't change for some time.

Today, we open a new chapter in fighting Covid-19.

If we don't practice enough social distancing before Christmas and then realize, it has been the last Christmas with our grandparents, we will be full of regrets.

Today, we'll pass another grim milestone in this pandemic: 200,000 American lives lost.

I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic.

We have more [Corona-]cases because we do the greatest testing. If we didn't do testing, we'd have no cases.

More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing.

I dare saying that in regard of protecting us from Corona, a mask that may be uncomfortable is way more effective than a tin foil hat.

Obviously, if we had, right from the very beginning, shut everything down, you could have saved lives. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down.

We can’t keep our country closed. We have to open our country.

Listen to the scientists! Listen to what the facts are!

The President knew about this crisis all they way back in January. He's been incompetent in the way he responded to it. We have 80,000 deaths. We have more deaths than any nation in the world.

We've got the first stage of the pandemic behind us. But it has to be clear that it's still the beginning of this pandemic.

We should work across party lines, across religious lines. We shouldn't waste time pointing fingers.

This pandemic is a democratic disaster.

In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our great American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!

There are a few things that I doubt will ever go back.

This pandemic isn't a war. Countries aren't opposing each other. It is a test of humanity. It calls for the worst and the best in us. Let's show each other our best.

We're at the top of the Hill, and now we're going downward.

I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.

The U.S. is past this opportunity to control COVID-19 without shutdown. We did not act fast enough to have an ability to avoid the shutdown.

"As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?"
If that is the exchange, I'm all in.

Coronavirus will change almost everything going forward. Nobody can tell you when this is going to end. Nobody can tell you when you'll go back to work.

Call it psychological, call it feelings. call it emotions. But this is as much a social crisis as a health crisis.

A lot of crises are fantasy. And coronavirus, which is not all the mainstream media makes it out to be.

The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war. That is why today, I am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world. It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives.

Since the Reunion of Germany, or even since World War II, there has been no challenge to our country that demanded from us to work together as much as this one.

Perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow the disease, as it were, to move through the population, without taking as many draconian measures.

We propose to temporarily ban non necessary travels to all states of the European Union.

We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.

Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion. Nobody has ever seen anything like this before.

To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for 30 days.