Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerating, Warns WHO Chief, Calls for Plan of Attack Using Football Analogy

The new coronavirus pandemic is obviously "quickening", the World Health Organization cautioned Monday, yet said it was as yet conceivable to "change the direction" of the episode.

The comments came as the quantity of passings took off past 15,000, with in excess of 341,000 individuals contaminated around the world, as indicated by a count aggregated by AFP from authentic sources.

"The pandemic is quickening," WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told writers in a virtual news preparation. 

He said it took 67 days from the earliest starting point of the flare-up in China in late December for the infection to contaminate the initial 100,000 individuals around the world.

In correlation, it took 11 days for the second 100,000 cases and only four days for the third 100,000 cases, he said. 

The quantity of cases is accepted to speak to just a small amount of the genuine number of contaminations, with numerous nations just testing the most serious cases needing hospitalization.

"We are not defenseless observers. We can change the direction of this pandemic," Tedros said.

He required a blended methodology, which he compared to a football coordinate, after he and FIFA boss Gianni Infantino mutually propelled a battle planned for spreading the message of how to ensure against disease "to kick out coronavirus". "You can't dominate a football match just by shielding. You need to assault also," he said.

"Requesting that individuals remain at home and other physical removing measures are a significant method for hindering the spread of the infection and purchasing time, yet they are guarded estimates that won't help us to win," he cautioned.

"To win, we have to assault the infection with forceful and focused on strategies," he stated, repeating a call for "testing each presumed case, confining and thinking about each affirmed case and following and isolating each nearby contact."

In any case, the WHO boss recognized that various nations were battling to take increasingly forceful measures because of an absence of assets and access to tests.

Tedros commended the incredible vitality being placed into innovative work to discover an antibody and of medications to treat COVID-19.

Be that as it may, he said that "there is as of now no treatment that has been demonstrated to be viable against COVID-19," and cautioned against the utilization of medications not demonstrated to neutralize the ailment.

"Utilizing untested meds without the correct proof could raise bogus expectation and even accomplish more damage than anything else, and cause a deficiency of fundamental drugs that are expected to treat different maladies," he said.

In addition to other things, nations are taking a gander at utilizing antimalarial tranquilizes as a treatment against the new coronavirus.

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