In the last nine days the number of infected on the Ground every day increased by 100 million, said CEO of the organization. The total number of victims COVID-19 exceeded 400 thousand.
Despite the improvement of the situation with coronavirus in Europe, in the world it is getting worse, pandemic covers more people in different countries, said Director General of the world health organization Tedros of Ghebreyesus.
According to him, for nine of the last ten days the number of new cases exceeded 100 thousand people per day.
“the who has received reports of nearly 7 million cases [of infection with coronavirus in the world and almost 400 thousand dead,” he said, speaking at a regular briefing.
a Growing number of cases COVID-19 is still fixed in most African countries, added the head of the who.
Also a reported increase in the number of infected come from parts of Eastern and Central Europe, but also from Central Asia, he said.
According to the who on June 8 in the world diagnosed more than 6.9 million cases of infection with coronavirus, has died from infection more than 500 thousand people. According to the latest data of the American University of Hopkins, the number of registered infections in the Earth has exceeded 7 million, and killed more than 403 thousand.
In recent days, significantly increased the number of cases in India more than 264 thousand., the country ranks fifth in the world, beating Spain, Italy, France and Turkey.
on 5 June the President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro said that the country intends to follow suit and leave the who. “I warn that the United States came from who, and in the future we consider [this option]“, he said.
“We don’t want people from the outside indicated that we do here in terms of health,” asked Bolsonaro.
President of the United States Donald trump announced the severance of U.S. relations with the who on may 29. He accused the organization that it is controlled by China.
June 5, the who has modified its recommendations for use of face masks as precautionary measures in a pandemic coronavirus. “In areas where widespread transmission [of mers], we suggest to people 60 years and older, and those who have the disease, to wear medical masks in those places where the impossible physical distance,” — said Ghebreyesus. As examples, he cited public transport, shops and other crowded places. In the same who recommendations, it was said that the mask is only necessary suffering from respiratory infections, because there is no data on their effectiveness to protect healthy people.
