About 10% of the global population may have been infected by the coronavirus, according to a senior World Health Organization official.
It’s an estimate that’s far higher than the total of global confirmed cases reported by governments. At the same time, it would mean that most of the world’s population is still vulnerable to getting infected and this pandemic is far from over, the WHO’s head of emergencies Dr. Michael Ryan said Monday.
“This varies by country, it varies urban to rural, it varies by different groups,” Ryan said. “But what it does mean is that the vast majority of the world remains at risk.”
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