WHO Warns COVID-19 Pandemic Will Be ’Very Long’, Global Risk Remains High

At the end of its fourth meeting in Geneva, the Emergency Committee for Covid-19 indicated that "the risk posed by Covid-19 is very high" and that "the majority of populations in the world can be affected, even those who do not live in heavily affected areas".

For the WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the war against coronavirus is far from over. As proof, he recalls that countries that thought they had "experienced the worst, are now facing a resurgence of new cases".

In total, 17.6 million positive Covid-19 cases are officially recorded worldwide, including 680,000 deaths.