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COVID-19: WHO says no time for complacency despite vaccine news

Reuters
Reuters
16/11/2020
16:40 MYT
COVID-19: WHO says no time for complacency despite vaccine news
TEDROS: Right now we are extremely concerned by the surge in COVID-19 cases were seeing in some countries. - Filepic/REUTERS
GENEVA:The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that there is no time for complacency in confronting the coronavirus despite positive news about possible vaccines.
"Right now we are extremely concerned by the surge in #COVID19 cases we’re seeing in some countries," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a Tweet on Monday.
"Particularly in Europe and the Americas, #healthworkers and health systems are being pushed to the breaking point."
READ: Moderna says its vaccine is 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19
More than 54.44 million people have been reported infected by the coronavirus globally and 1,318,042​ have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
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