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COVID-19 infections growing exponentially, deaths near 50,000 - WHO (Reuters)
COVID-19 infections growing exponentially, deaths near 50,000 - WHO (Reuters)
Last Modified: 06:08 PM, Wed Apr 01, 2020
01 April 2020
GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) voiced deep concern on Wednesday about "the rapid escalation and global spread" of COVID-19 infections with the new coronavirus, which has now reached 205 countries and territories.
"In the past 5 weeks there has been a near exponential growth in the number of new cases and the number of deaths has more than doubled in past week," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, told a virtual news conference in Geneva.
"In the next few days we will reach 1 million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths worldwide," Tedros said.
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