Coronavirus pandemic ‘accelerating', WHO warns

The pandemic of disease caused by the coronavirus is accelerating, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, with more than 300,000 cases now recorded and infections reported from nearly every country worldwide.

While it took 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases of COVID-19, it took only 11 days for the second 100,000 cases, and just four days for the third 100,000 cases, WHO directorgeneral Tedros

Ghebreyesus, said.

“But we are not prisoners to statistics. We’re not helpless bystanders. We can change the trajectory of this pandemic,” Tedros told an online briefing for more than 300 journalists.

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Photo: AFP via Getty Images A couple dance at a park in Shenyang, China as the country reported no new local cases of coronavirus and life is slowly returning to normal after a two-month lockdown