GENEVA: Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged countries to press on with efforts to contains the virus as it continues to wreak havoc across around the world.
“More than six months into the pandemic, this is not the time for any country to take its foot off the pedal,” Ghebreyesus told an online briefing.
More than 136,000 new cases were reported worldwide on Sunday, the most in a single day so far, he said. Nearly 75% of them were reported from 10 countries, mostly in the Americas and South Asia.
In response to a question on China, WHO’s top emergencies expert, Brazil is now one of the hotspots of the pandemic, with the second-highest number of confirmed cases, behind only the United States, and a death toll that last week surpassed Italy’s.
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