Coronavirus cases reaching record numbers globally are not just the result of more countries testing, the World Health Organization said Monday.
“We do not believe that this is a testing phenomenon,” Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s emergencies program, said at a press conference at the organization’s Geneva headquarters.
“Clearly when you look at the hospital admissions, [they] are also rising in a number of countries and deaths are also rising. They’re not due to increased testing per se. So there definitely is a shift in the sense that the virus is now very well established on a global level,” he said.
