GENEVA/ZURICH, March 15 (Reuters) - A World Health
Organization (WHO) expert said on Monday that the past week has
seen an 11% increase in COVID-19 cases worldwide, raising
concerns that measures to halt the pandemic's spread may be
breaking down just as vaccine distribution picks up.
"In the past week we have seen an 11% increase in
transmission across the world," WHO epidemiologist Maria van
Kerkhove, the technical lead on COVID-19, told a news
conference. "It is not the time to let up."
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge in Geneva and
Silke Koltrowitz in Zurich; writing by John Miller;)