WHO Director General: New Coronavirus Cases See Biggest Increase In Single Day

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 6, 2020. AFP via Getty Images

The number of new CCP virus cases, commonly referred to as coronavirus, saw its biggest global increase in a single day, Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced on May 20.

“We still have a long way to go in this pandemic,” he said on Twitter. “In the last 24h, there have been 106,000 cases reported to WHO—the most in a single day since the outbreak began.”