Moderna chief executive officer Stephane Bancel has said he feels it’s “a reasonable scenario” to assume that the last stages of the COVID-19 pandemic are in sight. In an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Wednesday, the CEO of the American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company reiterated comments made by other health professionals, including World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director of Europe, Hans Kluge, who has suggested Europe could be heading for a quiet COVID-19 period. “I think that is a reasonable scenario,” Bancel said. “There’s an 80 percent chance that as Omicron evolves or SarsCov-2 virus evolves, we are going to see less and less virulent viruses.” “We still need, especially for the older ones, I think people above 50 to be vaccinated, people at high risk … will need to be boosted once a year.” He also said there’s another “20 percent scenario where we see a next mutation, which is more virulent than …