The WHO says that worldwide COVID deaths per week will be more than 100,000

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MANAGEMENT PHOTO: Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Program, Mike Ryan, speaks at a news conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland, 6 February 2020. REUTERS / Denis Balibouse

GENEVA (Reuters) – Global deaths from COVID-19 are expected to be “soon” in the top 100,000 per week, out of more than 93,000 reported last week, the World Health Organization’s biggest emergency expert Mike Ryan said on Monday.

In an epidemiological update to the WTO’s board meeting, he added that the US region accounts for about 47 percent of current deaths. In Europe, cases and deaths are stabilizing, but at a high level, he said.

“Currently, our epidemiological situation is dynamic and unequal, it is further complicated by variants,” he said.

Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge

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