COVID-19 Outbreak Is Accelerating -WHO
13 July 2020
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THE director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Tuesday the coronavirus outbreak is “accelerating, and we have clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic”.

“More than six months in, the case for national unity and global solidarity is undeniable,” he said at a WHO briefing.
“We cannot afford any divisions.”

Tedros stressed that while global deaths have levelled off, many countries are actually seeing cases and deaths rise.

Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said there are several possible explanations for a global death decline.

One explanation, he said, could simply be that there is a lag, and we may see deaths rise again.

Ryan warned, however, that what is imminently concerning is a daily increase in cases.

“That is not purely a result of testing,” he said.

According to Tedros, a team of WHO experts will be travelling to China this week to advance research working to understand how the novel coronavirus first reached humans.

Ryan said understanding how the virus got from the animal kingdom to humans is an “extremely important” step in managing risk going forward- The Sunday Mail

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