Wednesday,25 March 2020
The World Health Organisation says it is seeing a “very large acceleration” in coronavirus infections in the United States that had the potential of becoming the new epicentre.
During the past 24 hours, 85 per cent of new cases were from Europe and the United States, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told reporters on Tuesday.
Of those, 40 per cent were from the United States.
Harris said the US was “seeing a very large acceleration in cases”.
When asked whether the United States could become the new epicentre, she said: “it does have that potential”.
“(The United States) have a very large outbreak and an outbreak that is increasing in intensity.”
Overall, the global outbreak was accelerating very rapidly and she expected large increases in case numbers and deaths from the 334,981 cases and 14,510 deaths reported.
