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Global cases of COVID-19 have nearly doubled in 2 months: WHO

Published on April 16, 2021 at 12:33 PM

Global cases of COVID-19 have nearly doubled in 2 months: WHO

Rising global COVID-19 cases

The head of the World Health Organization said coronavirus cases are continuing to rise globally at “worrying”; rates and noted that the number of new cases confirmed per week has nearly doubled during the past two months.

At a press briefing on Friday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of new cases “is approaching the highest rate of infection that we have seen so far in the pandemic.”;

Read more: With COVID-19 variant cases on the rise, what do experts recommend?

Tedros said some countries that had been able to avoid widespread COVID-19 outbreaks are now seeing steep increases, citing Papua New Guinea as an example.

“Until the beginning of this year, Papua New Guinea had reported less than 900 cases and nine deaths,”; Tedros said. The noted. The country has now identified more than 9,000 cases and 83 deaths, half of which were reported in the last month.

“Papua New Guinea is a perfect example of why vaccine equity is so important,”; Tedros said, adding that the Pacific island nation has relied on vaccine donations from Australia and the U.N.-backed COVAX initiative.

To date, COVAX has shipped about 40 million vaccines to more than 100 countries, or enough to protect about 0.25% of the world’s population.

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