Geneva, August 12 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization is warning that unless nations act urgently to slow the spread of coronavirus, the world could log another 100 million infections by the end of 2021. 

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom, speaking from the Geneva-based headlquarters, noted the number of confirmed cases worldwide recently passed 200 million.  Dr. Tedros said: “And we know that the real number of cases is much higher.  As I said recently, whether we reach 300 million and how fast we get there depends on all of us.” 

In otner news, more than 200 prominent doctors, scientists, public health officials and civil society groups in the United States have signed an open letter calling on the Biden administration to adopt a wartime footing to massively increase the availability of mRNA vaccines around the world. 

The scientists warn: “Without urgent and immediate scale up of vaccine production and distribution, millions more will be infected and die.”