The World Health Organization has estimated that 10% of the world has been infected by the coronavirus - way more than has been recorded - as it mulled speeding up internal reforms.
To date, more than 35 million cases of Covid-19 have been registered worldwide, including some 1.04 million who have died, according to an AFP tally based on official sources.
But the WHO now estimates that around a tenth of the planet's 7.8 billion or so people have already been infected since the virus first surfaced in China late last year - more than 20 times the official count. "Our current best estimate tells us that about 10% of the global population may have been infected by this virus," WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan told a special meeting of the