Over a half year after the coronavirus developed in Wuhan, China, the "once-in-a-century pandemic" keeps on quickening, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday.

"The infection can be managed," he said in his introductory statements to a part states strategic in Geneva. "Be that as it may, in a large portion of the world, the infection isn't leveled out; it's deteriorating."

The new coronavirus, which developed in Wuhan, China, in late December, has tainted in excess of 12 million individuals around the globe and murdered at any rate 550,300 individuals up until this point, as indicated by information incorporated by Johns Hopkins University. The greater part of the world's cases have been recognized in the Americas, as indicated by WHO's most recent circumstance report.

"The pandemic is as yet quickening," Tedros included. "The all out number of cases has multiplied over the most recent a month and a half."

Nations that have effectively forestalled an episode or contained one did so utilizing major general wellbeing estimates, for example, testing comprehensively for the infection, directing forceful contact following and segregating individuals who may have been uncovered, Tedros said. He included that both poor and rich nations have wavered.

"The infection has overturned wellbeing frameworks in a portion of the world's wealthiest countries, while a few nations that have mounted an effective reaction have been of humble methods," he said.