The Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, He assured this Monday that although several countries register progress in their fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus, the pandemic “is really accelerating”.
“We all want this to end. We all want to get on with our lives. But the harsh reality is that this is not even close to ending. Although many countries have progressed globally, the pandemic is really accelerating, “ Tedros warned at a press conference.
Since the start of the pandemic, in the world more than 10,189,000 positive cases of coronavirus and more than 502,000 deaths from covid-19 were registered, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, more than 5,164,000 patients recovered from the disease.
The country most affected both in number of infections (more than 2,550,000 cases) and number of deaths (more than 125,000) remains the United States, followed by Brazil with more than 1,344,000 positive cases and more than 57,000 deaths. Then Russia is located with more than 640 thousand infections and more than 9 thousand deaths.
Previously, the WHO estimated that the covid-19 vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is the most advanced so far.
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