WHO says pandemic has caused more ‘mass trauma’ than WWII and will last for years

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused mass trauma and on a larger scale than the second World War — the impact of which will last “for many years to come,” the World Health Organization’s top official said Friday.

“After the second World War, the world has experienced mass trauma, because second World War affected many, many lives. And now, even with this Covid pandemic, with bigger magnitude, more lives have been affected,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference Friday. “Almost the whole world is affected, each and...