World Health Organization officials announced Monday that 10 percent of the world's population has likely been infected with coronavirus.
blasted the WHO for having"failed in its basic duty" to respond to the coronavirus and stop its spread out of China. He halted funding to the WHO, a move which was widely criticized by major donors including philanthropist and tech entrepreneur Bill Gates, who called it"as dangerous as it sounds."
At the time, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said the middle of a pandemic was"not the time" for such a major cut to an organization which was aiding in the response. "Many deaths have been averted and many more lives can be protected," Ryan said. His boss, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, led a moment of silence to honor victims of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as leading applause for health care workers across the globe who have worked on the front lines to slow the spread of the virus.
Students of the Russian University of Transport wearing face masks attend a lecture in Moscow on October 5, 2020, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. - Russia confirmed 10,888 new Covid-19 cases on October 5, bringing the countrys official amount to 1,225,889 as the number of new infections across the country continues to rise.
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