Speaking at the opening of an extraordinary session of the Executive Council of the World Health Organization (WHO), the boss of this organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that 10 % of the world population would be infected with the coronavirus.
“The coronavirus, which would have already infected 10 % of the world’s population, is an” alarm signal “for the international community,” he warned.
Thus, 780 million people would have been contaminated by this virus far beyond the official figures, estimated at 35.3 million.
We are not on the wrong track, but we have to go faster. The pandemic is an alarm signal for all of us, “he said, masked. “We must all look at us in the mirror and ask us what we can do best,” he added, quoted by the AFP agency.