WHO: Global COVID-19 cases, deaths reach plateau

TASS News Agency

GENEVA, May 10 — The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths has reached “an unacceptably high plateau”, with more than 5.4 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and nearly 90,000 deaths last week, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva on Monday (May 10).

“Globally, we are now seeing a plateauing in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, with declines in most regions including the Americas and Europe, the two worst-affected regions,” he said. 

“But it’s an unacceptably high plateau, with more than 5.4 million reported COVID-19 cases and almost 90,000 deaths last week.” (TASS) -jlo

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