WHO mobilizes aid to India in “heartbreaking” situation

The pandemic of covid-19 In India, where a record number of more than 350,000 daily cases are recorded (more than a third of the world total) is “heartbreaking”, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO), which mobilized aid to help this country.

“The WHO He is doing everything in his power there, mobilizing equipment and sending in aid that includes oxygen cylinders, prefabricated mobile hospitals and laboratory supplies, “the managing director said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press conference.

The Ethiopian expert indicated that WHO It has relocated 2,600 of its staff to the country to support the response of Indian health authorities on the ground.

Tedros He added that, “Globally, the pandemic continues to escalate, with cases increasing for the ninth consecutive week and deaths for the sixth.”

“There have been as many cases in the world over the past week as in the first five months of the pandemic,” said the head of the WHO, who pointed out that in some parts of the world (including America and Europe), weekly cases are declining slightly.

According to WHO, global cases of covid-19 Since the start of the pandemic, they have increased to 146 million, of which 3.1 million have died, while national health networks indicate that more than a billion doses of anticovid vaccines have already been distributed worldwide.