Virus death toll certainly higher than 1M: WHO chief

Science offers solutions but they will be ineffective without solidarity, says WHO chief Although 1 million lives are confirmed to have been lost to COVID-19, the real number is “certainly higher,” the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a high-level virtual session of the 75th United Nations General Assembly. “Yesterday marked a grim milestone in our shared fight against COVID-19 – one million people are confirmed to have lost their lives to this new virus. The real number is certainly higher than this,” he said. More people are fighting for their lives in hospitals all over the world and individuals, communities, and economies “are gripped by fear and uncertainty,” he added. “Still, science is giving the world solutions in the form of new tests, therapeutics, and hopefully a vaccine. Science and solutions will be ineffective without solidarity,” he said. The WHO chief said 167 countries will benefit from the COVID-19...