WHO: Coronavirus pandemic accelerating

AKIPRESS.COM - The pandemic continues to accelerate, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a briefing today.
This Thursday marks six months since WHO declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern. This is the sixth time a global health emergency has been declared under the International Health Regulations, but it is easily the most severe. Almost 16 million cases have now been reported to WHO, and more than 640,000 deaths. In the past 6 weeks, the total number of cases has roughly doubled, he saidf
"When I declared a public health emergency of international concern on the 30th of January - the highest level of alarm under international law - there were less than 100 cases outside of China, and no deaths. As required under the International Health Regulations, I will reconvene the Emergency Committee later this week to re-evaluate the pandemic and advise me accordingly," Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus added.
"Athough our world has changed, the fundamental pillars of the response have not: political leadership, and informing, engaging and listening to communities. And nor have the basic measures needed to suppress transmission and save lives: find, isolate, test and care for cases; and trace and quarantine their contacts.Keep your distance from others, clean your hands, avoid crowded and enclosed areas, and wear a mask where recommended. Where these measures are followed, cases go down. Where they're not, cases go up," he stressed.