{"id":163317,"date":"2020-06-22T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=163317"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:07:45","slug":"the-pandemic-is-accelerating-says-who-chief-warning-of-new-and-dangerous-phase-of-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/06\/the-pandemic-is-accelerating-says-who-chief-warning-of-new-and-dangerous-phase-of-coronavirus-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Pandemic Is Accelerating,&#8217; Says WHO Chief, Warning of &#8216;New and Dangerous Phase&#8217; of Coronavirus Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>19 Jun 2020 -&#8220;<em>More than 150,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO yesterday\u2014the most in a single day so far.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_163318\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WHO-Tedros-Adhanom-Ghebreyesus.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163318\" class=\"wp-image-163318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WHO-Tedros-Adhanom-Ghebreyesus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WHO-Tedros-Adhanom-Ghebreyesus.png 955w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WHO-Tedros-Adhanom-Ghebreyesus-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WHO-Tedros-Adhanom-Ghebreyesus-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-163318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attending a press briefing on Covid-19 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva.<br \/>(Photo: Fabrice Coffrini\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The head of the World Health Organization warned today that humanity is facing &#8220;a new and dangerous phase&#8221; of the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pandemic is accelerating,&#8221; said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks from came at a media briefing in Geneva where Tedros announced a grim milestone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than 150,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO yesterday\u2014the most in a single day so far,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros acknowledged that people worldwide were eager to be free from lockdown restrictions but warned that &#8220;the virus is still spreading fast&#8221; and is &#8220;still deadly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The world is in a new &amp; dangerous phase. Many people are understandably fed up with being at home. Countries are understandably eager to open up their societies &amp; economies. <br \/>But the virus is still spreading fast, it\u2019s still deadly &amp; most people are still susceptible&quot;-<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTedros?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@DrTedros<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHO\/status\/1273996317812015104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >June 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">He added that &#8220;strict and sustained implementation&#8221; of public health measures to curb the spread of the virus remains essential but also noted the difficulty of carrying out such efforts in refugee camps, where migrants face huge risks of being sickened by Covid-19.<\/div>\n<p>The new comments come as a tally from Johns Hopkins University shows there have been 8,520,761 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 454,889 deaths from Covid-19. The total cases include 2,203,659 just from the United States, where the virus has claimed the lives of 118,519.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros, in his Friday comments, stessed theneed for countries to focus on &#8220;the basics&#8221; to tackle the public health crisis, including testing.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump, meanhwile, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/06\/19\/trump-claims-covid-19-testing-overrated-cases-and-hospitalizations-surge-across-us\" >told<\/a> the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> this week that testing for Covid-19 is &#8220;overrated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-wrapper\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-bio\" class=\"field-wrapper content-column span-13\">\n<div class=\"inner-column clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-desc field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Andrea Germanos is senior editor and a staff writer at<\/em> Common Dreams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-copyright-cond\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-copyright field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><em>Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. 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