The head of the World Health Organization said he is “truly concerned” about divisions the coronavirus has created globally and within individual countries, calling it an “invisible but a very small virus causing havoc.”
Tedros didn’t elaborate, but the world’s two leading economic powers — the United States, which has the highest caseload and death toll from the pandemic and China, where COVID-19 first emerged — have traded recriminations and accusations about the origins and handling of the coronavirus.
“It’s clear that some areas of Brazil have quite a bit of pressure on the intensive care system,” he said. “There are clear hot spots in heavily populated areas.” “The data we have at the moment supports a system under pressure, but a system still coping with the number of severe cases,” Ryan said.Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has rejected ordering quarantines, and many Brazilians have criticized him for opposing city and state measures such as lockdowns, social distancing and other steps meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
WHO officials are particularly worried as the pandemic accelerates in developing countries about the disproportionate toll on people who may struggle to get health services: women, children and adolescents, Tedros said.
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