As the number of people infected with coronavirus has doubled in 6 weeks, the World Health Organization is convening an emergency commission.
This was announced by the head of the WHO Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus in the social network.
“As required by international health regulations, I am going to convene an emergency committee this week to review the coronavirus situation,” he said.
To date, 16.3 million infected people have been registered in the world. Over the past day alone, this number has increased by 203 thousand. At the same time, the number of deaths reached 649 thousand.