One million new cases of covid-19 in eight days

The World Health Organization (WHO) is alerting to an acceleration of the coronavirus pandemic worldwide.

"We know that the pandemic is much more than a health crisis, it is an economic, social and, in many countries, political crisis. Its effects will be felt for decades", said the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at a virtual conference organized by the emirate of Dubai, before adding that the pandemic of Covid-19 "continues to accelerate " in the world, with "the last million cases reported in just eight days. "

The agency France-Presse (AFP) recalls that last week, the head of the WHO had described this new phase of deconfinement (to revive the economy) "dangerous", considering that, despite the need to break out of confinement, the virus continued to “spread quickly” and remained “deadly”.

"It took more than three months for the first million cases to be reported, the last million cases being reported in just eight days," he said.

The CEO also called on governments and companies to prepare for possible future pandemics that could occur “in any country at any time and kill millions of people because we are not prepared” .

"We do not know where or when the next pandemic will occur, but we do know that it will have a terrible impact on world life and economy," warned Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Since China officially reported the disease in December, the virus has killed at least 465,300 people worldwide, according to reports by AFP on Sunday at 9 p.m.

The United States is the most affected country, with at least 119,959 deaths, followed by Brazil (50,617), the United Kingdom (42,632), Italy (34,634) and France (29,633) ). The new coronavirus has infected more than a million people in Brazil, with South America being the current epicenter of the pandemic with more than 20,000 dead in Mexico, more than 8,000 in Peru and more than 1,000 in Argentina.

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