One in 10 may have caught COVID, as world heads into 'difficult period' - WHO

A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a swab sample from a Sadhu or a Hindu holy man on a platform of a railway station, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, October 5, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

GENEVA (Reuters) - Roughly one in 10 people may have been infected with the coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world's population vulnerable to the COVID-19 disease it causes, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Mike Ryan, the WHO's top emergency expert, was addressing the agency's Executive Board, where the United States made a thinly veiled swipe at China for what it called a "failure" to provide accurate and timely information on the outbreak.