Daily Mail: Coronavirus is TEN TIMES deadlier than the 2009 swine flu pandemic which killed 200,000, WHO reveals as it stress a vaccine will be needed to fully halt transmission
* WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organisation was still learning
* The infection has killed nearly 115,000 people globally and seen over 1.8m cases
* The WHO said 18,500 people died of swine flu but the Lancet said up to 575,400
* Tedros warned while Covid-19 accelerated quickly, 'it decelerates much slowly'
Coronavirus is ten times deadlier than the 2009 swine flu pandemic and a vaccine will be needed to halt it, the World Health Organisation has said.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from Geneva the organisation was constantly learning about the bug sweeping the globe.
The incredibly contagious infection has now killed nearly 115,000 people and seen over 1.8million cases globally.
Tedros said: 'We know that Covid-19 spreads fast, and we know that it is deadly, ten times deadlier than the 2009 flu pandemic.'
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MIDDLE EAST
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Netanyahu, Gantz re-engage to broker emergency unity gov't in Israel. Israel's Gantz, Netanyahu given 48 hours to negotiate unity government.
ASIA
South Korea votes in first national election of coronavirus era.
South Korean leader's popularity rises ahead of elections Wednesday.
Kim Jong-un's sister returns as North Korea's propaganda chief - months after she was axed following collapse of her brother's summit with Donald Trump.
Taliban releases 20 prisoners to restart intra-Afghan peace talks.
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Taliban meet with GEN Miller amid tensions over peace deal.
Indian army accused of using Kashmiris as human shields in border skirmish with Pakistan.
India issues strong demarche to Pakistan over killing of its civilians in cross-border firing.
Kim Jong Un skips North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly.
World Bank projects declining economies in South Asia. World Bank warns South Asia's economic growth to slump.
AFRICA
Coronavirus in Africa tracker.
Locusts leave a million hungry in Ethiopia, UN says.
Libyan forces capture 2 cities in fight against Haftar, loyalists.
Libya's GNA says it shot down Haftar jets.
Libyan coronavirus hospital closes amid attacks.
US, African nations express 'extreme concern' over alleged coronavirus-related racism in China.
China counters accusations of racism against African residents.
Second wave of locusts in east Africa said to be 20 times worse.
Ebola deaths in Congo halt plan to declare virus eradicated.
WHO sounds alarm over new Ebola case in Congo.
Ghana's morgues congested as families shun private burials.
EUROPE
Italy's Covid-19 death toll tops 20,000.
Hundreds of thousands return to work as Spain relaxes coronavirus lockdown.
UK to remain in lockdown as coronavirus deaths rise above 11,000.
French new coronavirus death toll rises by 574 to 14,967.
Promising 'better days,' Macron extends France's lockdown until May 11.
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UK Labour Party orders probe into leaked anti-Semitism report.
Radiation levels rise as fires burn near Chernobyl's former nuclear power plant.
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AMERICAS
Cuomo says 'worst is over' as NY deaths cross 10,000.
New York and other US states plan for reopening as Covid-19 cases 'plateau'.
Trump claims he, not governors, has authority on opening state economies.
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