RELATED: CoronavirusNOW.com, FOX launches national hub for COVID-19 news and updatesTedros called for countries to come up with comprehensive strategies, and noted that roughly half of all new cases are in the Americas.
His remarks came a day after Florida shattered the record among U.S. states for the largest single-day increase in new confirmed cases, with more than 15,000.“If the basics aren’t followed, there is only one way this pandemic is going to go,” Tedros said. “It’s going to get worse and worse and worse.”Meanwhile, two WHO experts were in China for a mission to trace the origin of the pandemic.
The virus was first detected in central China's city of Wuhan late last year. Beijing had been reluctant to allow a probe but relented.