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US, Brazil own half of world's cases and are getting worse, says WHO
The coronavirus pandemic raging around the globe will worsen if countries fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization warns.
Tuesday
July 14, 2020
Bathers in the sand of Arpoador beach, Rio de Janeiro, where the local government allowed individual sports to be practiced and restricted bathers to remain on the beach sands. Photo: Fernando Souza / AGIF (via AP)
“Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has told a virtual briefing from the UN agency’s headquarters in Geneva.
“If basics are not followed, the only way this pandemic is going to go – it is going to get worse and worse and worse. But it does not have to be this way.”
Global infections stand at 13 million, according to a Reuters tally, with more than half a million deaths.
Tedros, whose leadership has been heavily criticised by US President Donald Trump, said that of 230,000 new cases on Sunday, 80 per cent were from 10 nations, and 50 per cent from just two countries.
More:
https://inqld.com.au/news/2020/07/14/two-countries-own-half-of-worlds-cases-and-are-getting-worse-says-who/
Also posted in LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142536908
