THE pandemic is reaching deadly new heights across the world, the WHO warned this week, even as the focus in some countries, including the U.S., has shifted toward how quickly to ease restrictions as vaccination figures eke upward.
“Around the world, cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference on Friday. “Globally, the number of new cases per week has nearly doubled over the past two months. This is approaching the highest rate of infection that we have seen so far during the pandemic. Some countries that had previously avoided widespread transmission are now seeing steep increases in infections.”
The bulk of new infections have been seen in Brazil and India, the second- and third-worst-affected countries. Earlier this week, the nongovernmental organization Doctors Without Borders warned that Brazil’s coronavirus response had driven the country into a “humanitarian
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