The coronavirus could have infected 10 percent of the world's population. This assumption was told by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) health emergency program Mike Ryan, quoted by Reuters.
Thus, 90 percent of the world's population is at risk, he said. The planet is home to approximately 7.84 billion people, 10 percent is 784 million people. “We are now approaching a difficult period,” Ryan added.
The WHO representative also said that the organization is investigating the causes of the coronavirus. In particular, a number of experts will travel to China to investigate.
According to the latest data, there are 35 million people infected with coronavirus in the world. More than a million people have died. An outbreak of COVID-19 pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus was first recorded in December 2019 in Wuhan. On March 11, WHO announced that the situation could be characterized as a pandemic.
