By next week, Coronavirus cases in the world to cross 10 million mark, claims WHO Chief

Geneva: – In the last 24 hours, Coronavirus claimed 5,100 lives in the world, taking the total number of deaths to more than 486,000. But in the same 24 hours 172,000 new Coronavirus cases were reported from around the world. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), claimed that if the numbers keep increasing at this rate, the total number of Coronavirus cases will cross 10 million by the next week. At the same time, Ghebreyesus also expressed a concern that the number of Oxygen cylinders, available around the world, are not sufficient for the Coronavirus cases. Currently, there are 9,573,223 Coronavirus cases in the world.

Chief of WHO, Ghebreyesus, expressed concerns over the rapidly increasing number of Coronavirus cases in the world. The WHO chief informed that the Coronavirus pandemic has still not attained its full speed in the United States and Brazil. Even in that scenario, the number of Coronavirus cases, around the globe, can cross 10 million in the next week. Ghebreyesus said that the WHO is ready to supply Oxygen cylinders, necessary to fight the Coronavirus crisis, to the concerned countries. But there is a big gap between the increasing demand and the availability of the cylinders.

Last week, other officials from the WHO informed that an increase of 25% to 50% was noticed in the Coronavirus cases, in the United States and the Latin American countries. The United States reported 38,000 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases in that country to over 2.4 million. The pandemic has claimed 124,303 lives in the United States. In Brazil, 42,725 new Coronavirus cases were reported, in the last 24 hours. With this the total number of Coronavirus cases in Brazil, has crossed 1,193,000 and the pandemic has claimed 53,000 lives in Brazil.

Meanwhile, the WHO is warning of a second wave of Coronavirus, hitting the United States and Latin America. A large number of Coronavirus cases have been reported from the Chinese capital of Beijing and the officials there have claimed that the situation in the city is alarming. But accusations that WHO Chief, Ghebreyesus, is hiding information regarding Coronavirus situation in China are gaining momentum once again.