The World Health Organization in their virtual news conference in Geneva expressed their concern on the he rising number of infections in US, claiming that globally the situation is worsening. “More than 100,000 cases have been reported on nine of the past 10 days. Yesterday, more than 136,000 cases were reported the most in a single day so far. Almost 75 percent of Sunday’s cases came from 10 countries mostly in the Americas and South Asia”, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated. "At the same time, we're encouraged that several countries around the world are seeing positive signs," Tedros said. In these countries, the biggest threat now is complacency.
The Americas, the current epicentre of the virus, is still a cause for "great concern," WHO officials said.Protests against racism have spread across the globe in recent weeks, raising concern for virus spread and questions regarding measures such as self-quarantine for protesters in some cities. WHO officials, however, clarified that just attending a mass gathering did not necessarily require such strict measures. Since its outbreak in China last year, the virus has taken 408,628 lives and infected 7,193,988.With 113,055 deaths, the United States is the worst-hit nation, followed by Brazil, where 37,312 have died. In the United Kingdom, 40,597 passed away and Italy lost 33,964 to the COVID-19 disease. India is the sixth worst-affected nation with 265,928 being infected. 7,473 have died so far.