WHO expects 100 mln COVID-19 cases worldwide by end of January


By Liu Qu
  • World
  • Friday, 22 Jan 2021

GENEVA, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) chief said on Thursday that the global COVID-19 caseload is expected to hit 100 million by the end of January, but vaccines have the potential to bring the pandemic under control.

In his address to the extraordinary meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that more than two million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide, and by the end of this month, "we expect to reach 100 million reported cases."

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