'Exponential growth' in cases worries WHO chief

April 02, 2020 00:06

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said he is "deeply concerned about the rapid escalation and global spread" of the coronavirus infection.

Addressing a daily news briefing, he said that in the past five weeks there had been a "near exponential growth" in the number of new cases while the number of deaths had more than doubled in the past week.

The world is set to reach one million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths worldwide in the next few days, he added.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say 887,067 people around the world have become infected and 44,264 have died.

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