WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 12 April 2021 – World – ReliefWeb

• We have now seen seven consecutive weeks of increasing cases, and four weeks of increasing deaths. Last week was the fourth-highest number of cases in a single week so far.
• This is despite the fact that more than 780 million doses of vaccine have now been administered globally. This disease is not flu. Young, healthy people have died. And we still don’t fully understand the long-term consequences of infection for those who survive.
• With a concerted effort to apply public health measures alongside…

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