GENEVA: The number of weekly coronavirus deaths worldwide continues to decline and is now at its lowest level in nearly a year.
This was announced at a briefing on Wednesday in Geneva by the Director General of World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom gebreyesus, quoted by TASS.
“The number of deaths from Covid-19 continues to decline and is now at its lowest level in almost a year,” he said. However, this number is still unacceptably high – about 50 thousand cases per week, and the real number is undoubtedly even higher,” said the head of the WHO.
“Death rates are declining in all regions except in Europe, where many countries are facing new waves of disease and death,” Gebreyas said, adding that death rates are highest in countries and populations that “have the least access to ” for vaccines against Covid-19′.
To date, WHO has recorded 238,229,951 cases of coronavirus infection worldwide and 4,859,277 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
This was announced at a briefing on Wednesday in Geneva by the Director General of World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom gebreyesus, quoted by TASS.
“The number of deaths from Covid-19 continues to decline and is now at its lowest level in almost a year,” he said. However, this number is still unacceptably high – about 50 thousand cases per week, and the real number is undoubtedly even higher,” said the head of the WHO.
“Death rates are declining in all regions except in Europe, where many countries are facing new waves of disease and death,” Gebreyas said, adding that death rates are highest in countries and populations that “have the least access to ” for vaccines against Covid-19′.
To date, WHO has recorded 238,229,951 cases of coronavirus infection worldwide and 4,859,277 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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