WHO Expects Coronavirus Cases to Hit 1mn in Following Days

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The World Health Organization is expecting the number of cases of coronavirus to reach one million in the upcoming days, while the death toll to reach about 50,000.

“As we enter the fourth month since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I am deeply concerned about the rapid escalation and global spread of infection,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, told a media briefing on Wednesday. “Over the past five weeks, we have witnessed a near exponential growth in the number of new cases, reaching almost every country, territory, and area.”

Newsweek reports that, since the COVID-19 epidemic started in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, the new coronavirus has spread to every continent except Antarctica as shown in the Statista map below.

According to Johns Hopkins University, there are currently 937,783 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 47,261 people have died, and 194,330 are known to have recovered. Earlier this week, the U.S. overtook China to become the country with the most confirmed cases.

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