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Overview: WHO sounds alarm as global deaths top 4 million, delta spreads to 100 countries
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Overview: WHO sounds alarm as global deaths top 4 million, delta spreads to 100 countries
Fri, 2021-07-09 15:14 — mike kraft![](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7ZKLMIW7RYI6XIT7RMUUSMHJLM.jpg&w=1440)
Even the delta variant, which was first identified in India and is now tearing through unvaccinated populations around the world, “is itself mutating and will continue to do so,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead at the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program.
“There are more than two dozen countries that have epidemic curves that are almost vertical right now,” she said. “We’re not in a good place.”
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Here are some significant developments:
At the same time, “some countries with high vaccination coverage are … relaxing as though the pandemic is already over,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The world is at a perilous point in this pandemic … far too many countries in every region in the world are seeing sharp spikes in cases and hospitalization.”
His remarks came as several nations, particularly in Europe, were set to fully reopen or had already lifted some virus curbs, even as the delta variant was gaining ground. ...
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