over the last 24 hours, 106, 000 cases of Covid-19 have been reported to WHO in the world. A record since the beginning of the pandemic.
The WHO has reported this Wednesday, the largest number of new cases of Covid-19 in the world in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic, saying it feared its consequences in the poorest countries.
“We still have a long way to go in this pandemic Covid-19. Over the past 24 hours, 106 000 cases were reported to WHO – the highest figure for a single day since the beginning of the epidemic,” alarmed ” by the director-general of the world health Organization.
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“Nearly two-thirds of these cases have been reported in four countries”, he added during a virtual press conference from the headquarters of the WHO in Geneva. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has not specified what were these countries, but according to the latest report of the WHO published on his website, he comes to the United States, Russia, Brazil and saudi Arabia, closely followed by India, Peru and Qatar.
The milestone of five million cases soon reached
“We are very concerned by the growing number of cases in the low-income countries or middle-men” where the health system is failing or non-existent, and the measures of distancing physical more difficult to implement, he pointed out.
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These countries are also the most vulnerable, in economic terms, the collapse of trade and the international movement of people who deny such a tourist trade vital. The United Nations Program for development (Undp) has estimated Wednesday in a report that the human development index, which measures jointly the education, health and standard of living, was on the way back this year, for the first time in decades because of the health consequences, social and economic costs of the pandemic.
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The milestone of five million cases in the world, will soon be achieved, said Michael Ryan, head of the emergency health of the WHO. Part of China five months ago, the pandemic of novel coronavirus has been around the world, killing all in its path 323 370 people, according to a count by the AFP.
