The COVID-19 pandemic is at a critical time, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, with the sharp increase in cases in areas such as Europe, and the coming months “are going to be very hard,” warned the director general of the World Organization of Health (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The trend in many countries is being dangerous, with hospitals and intensive care units already reaching their capacity limits or exceeding them, and that we are only in October,” the Ethiopian expert warned in his last press conference of the week. He added that health networks where the numbers of hospitalizations and serious cases are already high “must begin to make the necessary adjustments” and stated that in all cases “it is important to be honest with the population, explain what they should do and what the situation is. of the first wave in March and April. Deaths in the Old Continent are also on the rise and are already around 2,000 per day, although the figures are still lower than those of March and April, when maximums of up to 5,000 daily deaths were reached.

Source: Ethiopian News October 24, 2020 07:07 UTC