WHO Says More 30-to-60-Year-Olds Getting Severe Disease

Apr.04 — The World Health Organization warned that an increasing amount of people in their thirties, forties and fifties are experiencing severe outcomes from the coronavirus. “We’ve seen some data from a number of countries across Europe where people of younger age have died,” Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist, said at a news conference in Geneva on Friday.


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The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution, which establishes the agency’s governing structure and principles, states its main objective as “the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.”

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