evidence: "Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about", said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, briefing the media at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. According to WHO’s Coronavirus Dashboard which has collated key statistics since early in the pandemic, the cumulative cases worldwide now stand at 765,222,932, with nearly seven million deaths: the precise figure currently stands at 6,921,614. [...] He said the virus – first made a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO chief on 30 January, 2020 - was here to stay: "It is still killing and it is still changing. The risk remains of new variants emerging that cause new surges in cases and deaths."