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WHO director: Pandemic 'speeding up'
WHO director: Pandemic 'speeding up'
By Reid Wilson - 06/29/20 01:14 PM EDT
Six months after the World Health Organization (WHO) first identified a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases at a hospital in Wuhan, China, the number of people newly infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is rising rapidly.
More than 10 million people across the globe have tested positive for the coronavirus, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday, nearly 180,000 of whom tested positive in the last 24 hours.
Almost half a million people have died worldwide.
"The reality is this is not close to being over," Tedros told reporters. "Globally, the pandemic is actually speeding up."
About half the cases, and nearly half the deaths across the globe, have come in the Americas. The United States, which accounts for about 4 percent of the global population, has nearly a quarter of the total confirmed cases, 2.4 million.
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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/505042-who-director-pandemic-speeding-up
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Ya don't say?
Republicans don't listen & react appropriately in a timely fashion?
I'm shocked!
DUH!
