Over 160,000 coronavirus cases reported every day in past week: WHO
The global coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, the World Health Group said Wednesday, pointing out that June saw over fifty percent of all cases reported because the start of the pandemic.
“For days gone by week, the amount of the new cases provides exceeded 160,000 on each day,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing.
“Sixty percent of most cases so far have been reported just during the past month,” he said.
With over 511,000 deaths and more than 10.5 million known infections worldwide, the coronavirus pandemic is “not even near being over”, the WHO warned earlier this week.
Tedros reiterated that going for a “comprehensive approach” was the ultimate way to rein found in the virus.
Countries that have implemented a variety of measures, including call tracing, isolation, physical distancing and mask wearing “experience suppressed transmitting and saved lives”, he said.
The UN health agency was therefore very concerned, he said, to see a number of countries “have not used all the tools at their disposal and also have taken a fragmented approach.
“These countries face a long, hard road in advance,” he said.
He stressed that as the pandemic posed a good scientific challenge, “it’s likewise a test of character”.
