00:00I'm deeply concerned about the rapid escalation and global spread of infection.
00:09Over the past five weeks, we have witnessed a near exponential growth in the number of new cases,
00:18reaching almost every country, territory and area.
00:23The number of deaths has more than doubled in the past week.
00:29In the next few days, we will reach one million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths.
00:39While relatively lower numbers of confirmed cases have been reported from Africa and from Central and South America,
00:49we realized that COVID-19 could have serious social, economic and political consequences for these regions.
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