GENEVA: The World Health Company alerted Friday of a “brand-new and unsafe stage” of the coronavirus pandemic with individuals tiring of lockdowns despite the illness’s accelerating spread.
The caution came as it emerged the virus was present in Italy in December, months before its very first confirmed cases and about the same time as the disease was initially reported in China.
The infection, which has now eliminated more than 454,000 individuals and infected 8.4 million people worldwide, is surging in the Americas and parts of
Asia
even as Europe begins to ease restrictive procedures.
Lockdowns enforced to halt the spread of the disease have triggered crippling financial damage, however the
WHO
stated the pandemic still posed a significant threat.
” The world is in a new and unsafe phase. Many people are naturally fed up with being at home … but the infection is still spreading fast,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus informed a virtual interview.
A vaccine remains months off at finest in spite of several trials, while scientists are still discovering more about the infection, its symptoms