The head of the World Health Organization has called the recent surge in coronavirus in India "beyond heartbreaking", saying the U.N. agency has dispatched thousands of oxygen concentrators and other critical supplies to the subcontinent.
At a press briefing on Monday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the pandemic "continues to intensify" globally and said that COVID-19 infections have now risen for the ninth straight week while deaths have increased for the sixth week in a row.
"There were as many cases globally last week as in the first five months of the pandemic," he said.
To address the devastating crisis in India, he said WHO has redeployed more than 2,000 staff to support India's response on the ground and is helping authorities to strengthen efforts including surveillance and vaccination.
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