WHO warns COVID-19 entering ‘new & dangerous phase’

Geneva: The World Health Organization warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is entering a new and dangerous phase as daily corona cases hit record highs. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO chief said that the cases are accelerating after the numbers of cases reported on Thursday, June 19, were the most in a single day, at 150,000 new cases.  He added that almost half of the cases were reported from the Americas with a large number coming from Southern Asia and the Middle East.

He noted that people are fed up of being at home and countries want to reopen their economies, but this time calls for extreme caution as the virus is spreading fast and many are still vulnerable.

WHO had previously told the world leaders that there can be no going back to usual following the COVID-19 pandemic which has brought down the economies and wreaked havoc on nearly every country on globe. The countries need to manage around the coronavirus in the near future as the cases are declining in some countries, while rising in others and reappearing in the areas where it was under control.

COVID-19 has shown that no one is safe until all are safe and a difference can be only made if politics is kept aside and everyone is working together. There is no vaccine for coronavirus as of now, if one is discovered that will be the first one, WHO said.