It took over 3 months for world to record 1 million COVID-19 infections-but last million took 8 days
It took more than three months for the world to see one million virus infections, but the latest one million cases have come in just eight days, Tedros said on Monday during a video conference for the Dubai-based World Government Summit.
He said the world recorded more than 183,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday alone, the most in a single day since the outbreak started in December.
"Certainly the numbers are increasing because the epidemic is developing in a number of populous countries at the same time and across the whole world," WHO's top emergencies expert, Mike Ryan, said.
"Some of that increase may be attributed to increased testing ... And certainly countries like India are testing more. But we do not believe that this is a testing phenomenon."
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