Second yr of Covid-19 pandemic may very well be tougher than first: WHO

Image Source : ANI Second yr of Covid-19 pandemic may very well be tougher than first: WHO
The second yr of the coronavirus pandemic may very well be tougher than the primary one over the transmission dynamics, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme Michael Ryan mentioned.

“We are going into the second year, this could be tougher given the transmission dynamics and some issues we see,” Ryan mentioned throughout a Q&A session on late Wednesday.

The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, greater than 92.1 million individuals have been contaminated with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 1.97 million fatalities, in accordance with Johns Hopkins University.

The University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) on Thursday revealed that the present world caseload and demise toll stood at 92,291,033 and 1,961,987, respectively.

The US is the worst-hit nation with the world’s highest variety of circumstances and deaths at 23,067,796 and 384,604, respectively, in accordance with the CSSE.

India is available in second place by way of circumstances at 10,495,147, whereas the nation’s demise toll soared to 151,529. Meanwhile, Brazil presently accounts for the second highest variety of fatalities at 205,964.

(With ANI iputs)
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