The World Health Organisation, WHO, has expressed concern over the high rate of COVID-19 deaths even as the total number of deaths surpassed three million weekends, according to the Johns Hopkins University, JHU.
The Director-General of the WHO, Dr Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus who warned that the world was approaching the highest rate
of infection so far, said the cases and deaths are continuing to increase at
worrying rates, noting that globally, the number of new cases per week had
nearly doubled over the past two months.
The head of the global health agency said an average of more than 12,000 deaths
were recorded globally every day in the past week, shooting the overall toll
past three million on Saturday.
“Cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates, said that globally, the number of new cases per week has nearly doubled over the past two months,” Tedros warned.
From available data, the world took 271 days
to reach one million deaths, the two million marks was reached within 110 days
while the three million marks were crossed in 91 days.
Also last week, Europe surpassed one million deaths from COVID-19 even as about
1.6 million new cases were reported each week in the region.
Africa has recorded almost 120,000 deaths from 4.46
million cases, trailing Asia with over 470,000 deaths from 33.7 million cases.
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