Queue to enter the metro in New Delhi, India, September 24, 2020. -
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If all possible measures are not implemented to fight Covid-19, the human toll could reach dizzying figures, warns the WHO.
The planet could experience two million deaths, double those killed so far by the coronavirus.
A figure "very likely", for the agency.
“If we don't do everything possible, the number you are talking about [two million] is not only conceivable but unfortunately very likely,” responded WHO's Director of Emergencies Michael Ryan, questioned at a press conference.
Do "all at once"
“If we don't continue to do more, to evolve, in the nature and scale and intensity of our cooperation, then yes, we are going to contemplate that number and unfortunately even higher.
The time for action is now, ”added Michael Ryan.
“It's not just testing and tracing, not just (performing) medical care, not just (applying) social distancing, not just (working on) vaccines, do it all at home. times ”, hammered Michael Ryan.
The Covid-19 pandemic, which started at the end of 2019 in China before spreading over the months around the world, is happening, in the days that have just crossed the million dead mark.
According to the latest AFP count published on Friday, at least 984,068 people had died from Covid-19 around the world.
More than 32,298,410 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed but the number of infections is thought to be much higher, with many people missing from a census.
The United States is the most affected country in terms of both deaths and cases, with 202,827 deaths.
Next come Brazil with 139,808 dead, India with 92,290 dead, Mexico with 75,439 dead and the United Kingdom with 41,902 dead.
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