WHO confronts new strains; fresh restrictions set
(World News Brazil)

As global health experts gathered on Thursday to tackle new coronavirus strains blamed for a fresh surge in infections, countries including Britain and France tightened restrictions to head off a further worsening of the pandemic. The World Health Organization emergency committee session came as WHO colleagues were seeking the origins of the virus on a long-delayed mission to the pandemic ground zero in Wuhan. Almost two million of the more than 91 million people who have caught the disease have died, but the figures are widely believed to be an underestimate. “When you first met almost a year ago, just 557 cases of the disease we now call Covid-19 had been reported to WHO,” WHO...