The World Health Organization expects global cases of COVID-19 to reach more than 10 million within a week.
WHO director general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organization has documented 9.1 million cases of the virus around the world thus far, including more than four million cases last month alone.
“This is a sober reminder that even as we continue into vaccines and therapeutics, we have an urgent responsibility to do everything we can with the tools we have now to suppress transmission and save lives."According the WHO data, the virus has already claimed more than 470,000 lives worldwide. As of Wednesday afternoon, Canada has recorded more than 102,000 cases of COVID-19, including nearly 8,500 deaths. Ontario and Quebec account for more than 85 per cent of these cases
Cases in the U.S. have surged in the last few weeks as the country reopens its economy. Johns Hopkins reported 34,700 cases in the U.S. on Tuesday, the third-highest single-day total to date.
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