The Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press briefing warned that the "worst is yet ahead of us" in the COVID-19 virus outbreak. The statement has come at a time when several nations across the are gradually beginning to ease down on the restrictive and lockdown measures that were enforced in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Tedros didn't describe his reasons as to why the coronavirus outbreak, which has so far claimed over 1,71,810 lives with over 2.5 million testing positive, could get any worse.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Tedros went on to point out the so-called 1918 Spanish flu while speaking about the COVID-19 virus saying, "It has a very dangerous combination and this is happening in hundred years for the first time again, like the 1918 flu that killed up to 100 million people,". Tedros then stated, "But now we have technology, we can prevent that disaster, we can prevent that kind of crisis. Trust us. The worst is yet ahead of us. Let’s prevent this tragedy. It’s a virus that many people still don’t understand."