The World Health Organization's emergency committee met, two weeks early, on Thursday to discuss the urgent threat from rapidly-spreading new coronavirus variants.
"There are two urgent issues which need particular attention, and for which we seek your advice," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told members, in his opening remarks. The latest meeting comes as global infections soared past 92 million and deaths approached two million, with governments around the world reimposing painful economic lockdowns and social restrictions.
In its weekly epidemiological bulletin, the WHO said the coronavirus mutation first found in Britain had spread to 50 territories, while a similar South African-identified strain has now been found in 20.
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