CAIRO (AFP) - The World Health Organisation expressed concern on Wednesday (April 14) that the Covid-19 pandemic could worsen in the Middle East and North Africa during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Detected cases of Covid infection in the region rose 22 per cent last week, while deaths rose 17 per cent, said Ahmed al-Mandhari, the Cairo-based chief of the WHO for the eastern Mediterranean. Mandhari said the situation in the vast region reflects a "worrying trend". "We are especially worried that the current situation may worsen during Ramadan if people don't follow and adhere to the proven social measures that work," he told an online news conference.