Covid-19 pandemic to be far more deadly this year: WHO chief s grim warning Agence France-Presse Pandemic warning
The World Health Organisation issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be far more deadly , as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped. We re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first, said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The mood also darkened in Japan where the coronavirus state of emergency took in another three regions just 10 weeks before the Olympics, while campaigners submitted a petition with more than 350,000 signatures calling for the Games to be cancelled.