The World Health Organisation (WHO) says COVID-19 infections have increased by 80 percent over the past four weeks in most regions of the world.
“Hard-won gains are in jeopardy of being lost, and health systems in many countries are being overwhelmed,” WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said this at a media conference on Friday.
He said the Delta variant has now been detected in 132 countries.
Ghebreyesus urged countries to speed up vaccination, adding that approved vaccines offer significant protection against all the variants.
