WHO Issues Global Warning as Virus Cases Spike to ‘New and Grim Record’

WHO Issues Global Warning as Virus Cases Spike to ‘New and Grim Record’
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 2, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
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The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a stark warning for the world after the number of CCP virus cases jumped globally to a “new and grim record” with 183,000 new cases reported on June 21.
The news came just three days after a press briefing on June 19 where the WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus revealed more than 150 thousand new cases of COVID-19 were reported to WHO—the most in a single day so far.
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