WHO chief Tedros warns against relaxing containment measures, says there is still ‘a long way to go’.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said there were “worrying upward trends” in early epidemics in parts of Africa and central and South America, warning that the “virus will be with us for a long time”.
More than 2.5 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the coronavirus. At least 178,000 have died, with the US accounting for about a quarter of all deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The United Nations is warning global hunger could double as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, putting 265 million people at risk. Australia is trying to build support internationally for an independent review of the origins and spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, April 24, 2026
