WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was now impossible to predict when the Covid-19 outbreak would peak. The World Health Organisation said on Friday that Europe was now the "epicentre" for the global coronavirus pandemic, and warned it was impossible to know when the outbreak would peak, AFP reports. "Europe has now become the epicentre of the pandemic," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a virtual press conference. He said the continent had now "more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined, apart from China. Maria Van Kerkhove, who heads the WHO's emerging diseases unit, said it was not possible to predict how the pandemic will develop.

Source: The Standard March 14, 2020 06:18 UTC