“We can better fight this virus when we know everything about it, including how it spread, and we will send a team to China next week to work on it,” he said.

Gebreyesus previously stated that at the global level, the spread of the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating. 

On June 15, doctor of medical sciences virologist Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with NSN, assessed the probability of a second wave of COVID-19 in Russia.