More than half a million people have died from the disease in six and a half months, and the WHO chief said there would be no return to the "old normal" for the foreseeable future, especially if preventive measures were neglected.
"Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction; the virus remains public enemy number one," he told a virtual briefing from the WHO's headquarters in Geneva.
"If basics are not followed, the only way this pandemic is going to go, it is going to get worse and worse and worse. But it does not have to be this way."
The disease appears to be accelerating fastest in the Americas, which account for more than half the world's cases and half the deaths.
Al Jazeera
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