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The COVID-19 pandemic is not over, the worst is still ahead of the world. On Monday, WHO chief Tedros Adhan Ghebreyesus said this, according to the AP. Tedros issued the warning at a time when many countries, including European ones, have begun to ease quarantine measures.
“Believe us. The worst is still ahead of us,” Tedros said. “Let’s prevent this tragedy,” he added.
AP noted that Tedros did not directly explain why the epidemic, in which nearly 2.5 million people have been infected, could still significantly worsen. Some experts, however, point to Africa, where the infection could spread uncontrollably.
On Monday Tedros used a comparison to the Spanish flu.
“Like the flu in 1918, which killed up to one hundred million people,” he said. “But now we have technology, we can prevent the disaster, we can avert such a crisis,” he added.
Tedros also announced that WHO has ordered 30 million tests to detect the coronavirus and that it will begin distributing roughly 180 million surgical masks later this month.
Tedros also told Reuters that serological analyses show that even in the hardest-hit countries only a small part of the population was infected, roughly two to three percent.
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