The World Health Organization on Wednesday reported the highest single-day increase of coronavirus cases worldwide, warning the gradual end of lockdowns in wealthier countries may be obscuring an increasing crisis in the developing world.
Over the last 24 hours, 106,000 new cases of the virus were recorded, the body said, according to Reuters. Mike Ryan, head of the WHO’s emergencies program, said the world will “soon reach the tragic milestone of 5 million cases.”
“We still have a long way to go in this pandemic,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference Wednesday. “We are very concerned about rising cases in low- and middle-income countries.”
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