“One million is a terrible number and we must reflect on that before we begin to consider a second million,” WHO emergency director Michael Ryan told a virtual press conference, when asked if it was unthinkable that two millions of people could die in the pandemic. before a vaccine arrives.
The new coronavirus has killed at least 984,000 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a count from official sources compiled by AFP. About 32.3 million cases of the disease have been recorded.
Forty vaccine candidates are in the various stages of human testing. Another 149 are being developed in the lab. However, nine out of 10 vaccine candidates fail normally. Figures from the WHO showed Europe was on track Friday to beat the record of 66,277 daily cases set last Saturday.
Maria Van Kerkhove, Covid-19 technical director at the UN health agency, said the rise in infections recorded in several European countries was partly due to better surveillance. She said.
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