Pandemic accelerates and is out of control in most countries, WHO warns

The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed concern about the progress of the coronavirus pandemic globally on Wednesday (9), during the meeting of member states. According to the organization, cases remain out of control in most countries.
"In most of the world, the virus is not under control, it is getting worse," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the meeting of member states.
"More than 544,000 lives have been lost. The pandemic is still accelerating," Tedros warned.
As of Thursday, more than 11.8 million cases of coronavirus have been reported since the pandemic began, half of which have been reported in the last six weeks alone, according to the WHO.
"The Covid-19 pandemic left no country untouched. She humiliated all of us," lamented the agency's director general.
Tedros expressed solidarity with health professionals around the world and lamented the thousands of deaths in the area.
"I will never forget the images of health professionals who wore masks for so long on the shift, who had marks and bruises printed on their faces, saving lives and risking their own lives. We have lost many health professionals," he said.
The organization also expressed concern about vaccines from other diseases and the lack of medicines in the countries most affected by the pandemic.
"Hundreds of millions of children are at risk of losing routine vaccines for tuberculosis, pneumonia, measles, polio, cholera, cholera, diphtheria and others. Many countries have few HIV drugs," Tedros warned.
"Universal health coverage is essential to our global collective health security. Health for all, which has been the who's trademark for more than 70 years, is the answer," he said.
The DIRECTOR-GENERAL of WHO also reminded refugees, who are one of the most vulnerable groups to the pandemic, and lamented that the pandemic has increased social inequalities. "Covid-19 can push [refugees] to the brink," he said.
On Tuesday (7), who recognized that coronavirus can be transmitted by air, and not only by contact with droplets expelled by infected people, as it had been claiming.
WHO technical leader for infection prevention and control, Benedetta Allegranzi, acknowledged that new evidence of this risk of airborne contagion is emerging, but said that they are not definitive and that they still need to be gathered and interpreted.
Allegranzi pointed out that who already recommends that people avoid closed and crowded environments, keep distancing and wear the mask in certain situations. Suggests adequate ventilation for indoor environments.