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WHO announces worsening coronavirus situation
The situation with the spread of coronavirus infection in the world is worsening, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
On June 7, 136,000 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded worldwide — a record number for one day, The Daily Telegraph quotes the WHO chief as saying at an online briefing. 75% of the new cases were in 10 countries , mainly in South and North America, as well as Asia. “While the situation in Europe is improving, it is getting worse globally,” the WHO chief warned.
One of the leading WHO experts, Mike Ryan, in turn, reported that the number of COVID-19 cases in Central and South American countries continues to grow — the epidemic has not reached its peak. He specifically noted Guatemala and Brazil, which ranks second in the world in terms of the number of infected. Ryan called on the Brazilian authorities, who recently decided not to publish some of their coronavirus statistics, to continue to cooperate with the WHO “consistently and transparently.”
WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove, commenting on the situation with COVID-19, stressed: “The end is still far away.”
"When the pandemic is six months old, it is not time for any country to take its foot off the gas," the WHO chief said at an online briefing.
- According to Johns Hopkins University, as of 00:15 Moscow time on June 9, 405,000 people have died from the infection worldwide, and 7.081 million have been infected. The United States has the most infected people — 1.9 million people. Brazil is in second place, with almost 692,000 people infected, and Russia is in third place with 476,000 cases.