COVID-19 cases top 1 mln globally: WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Xinhua/Chen Junxia)

More than one million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), including more than 50,000 deaths, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.

Noting the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic, Tedros stressed the COVID-19 outbreak is much more than a health crisis.

"We are in a shared struggle to prote- ct both lives and livelihoods, " said Tedros.