A health worker measures the temperature to a man during an operation to identify COVID-19 cases amid the Coronavirus pandemic on July 12, 2020 in La Paz, Bolivia.
The United States and Brazil accounted for half of the new daily coronavirus cases as countries across the globe struggle to contain their outbreaks, the World Health Organization said Monday.
"Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction," Tedros said at a press conference from the agency's Geneva headquarters. In the U.S., Covid-19 cases continued to hit record levels over the weekend with Florida reporting on Sunday more than 15,000 new cases,reported by any single state. Florida now has more cases than several major nations with much larger populations such as Spain, Italy and France.
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