The head of WHO announced the "very dangerous" stage of the COVID-19 pandemic

The WHO described the current situation with the spread of coronavirus in the world as "very dangerous". Earlier, the organization said that the incidence of COVID-19stabilized, but it happened “at a very high level” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

The COVID-19 pandemic is at a very dangerous stage, despite the progress made in the fight against it. This was stated by the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus, the briefing was broadcast on the WHO website.

“While we are making progress in controlling the pandemic, it remains in a very dangerous phase,” Ghebreyesus said.

According to him, the only way out of this situation is to support countries "in the fair distribution of personal protective equipment, tests, medicines and vaccines."

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On the eve of the who announced the “stabilization” of the situation with COVID-19. “If you look at the [incidence] graph over the past couple of weeks, you can see that there has been a kind of stabilization. But it happened at a very high level,” said Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme.

In turn, the head of the WHO Emergency Diseases Unit, Maria van Kerkhove, called the situation with coronavirus in the world “ambiguous”. According to her, while in the Americas a decrease in the number of new cases by 13% was recorded, in other continents the figure, on the contrary, is growing. In particular, in Europe over the past week, the incidence has increased by almost 28%, the expert noted.

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According to WHO, since the beginning of the pandemic, almost 183.9 million people have been infected with coronavirus in the world, and 3.9 million people have died from the disease.

Since the end of April, the number of new cases of COVID-19 infection has been gradually decreasing, but since mid-June it has started to rise again. As the situation worsens, in particular the spread of the more contagious Indian strain, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa urged the EU to prepare for a fourth wave of coronavirus. According to him, it may begin in the country at the end of July.

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