COVID-19 Around the World
WHO expert warns ten percent of global population may have contracted COVID-19
Roughly one in 10 people may have been infected with coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world’s population vulnerable to the COVID-19 disease it causes, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
Dr Ryan said as he warned the world was “heading into a difficult period,” and that as South-east Asia faced a surge in cases, Europe and the eastern Mediterranean were seeing an increase, while the situations in Africa and the Western Pacific were “rather more positive.”
“The disease continues to spread. It is on the rise in many parts of the world,” he said
“Our current best estimates tell us that about 10 percent of the global population may have been infected by this virus.”
