LONDON: The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths globally continues to decline over the past week World Health Organization said Wednesday, only with western pacific Reporting an increase in COVID-19.
In its latest report on the pandemic, released on Wednesday, the UN health agency said new Covid-19 infections fell by 5% over the past week, continuing a downward trend that began more than a month ago. Is. Deaths also decreased by 8% and have been falling globally for the past two weeks.
Only the western Pacific saw a rise in coronavirus cases, recording a 46% increase. According to statistics, over the past week, Hong Kong has been recording around 150 deaths per day, the world’s highest death rate per million people. University of Oxford,
The highly contagious Omicron variant has recently overwhelmed the semi-autonomous Chinese city, prompting mass quarantines, panic in supermarkets and even city morgues, prompting authorities to stow away in refrigerated shipping containers. are forced to store dead bodies.
Elsewhere, Covid-19 is falling significantly; The biggest drop was seen in Middle East and Africa, where cases have declined by 46% and 40%, respectively.
“The softness of the Omicron wave, its low mortality rate and the fact that it is rapidly disappearing, have created the widespread impression that COVID-19 is over,” he said. Salim Abdul Karim Of University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He said it was still unclear when the pandemic might end, but added that the death toll had come down during the Omicron boom.
Many scientists attribute this to booster vaccination programs run in many prosperous countries that have broken the link between COVID-19 infection and serious illness.
Earlier this week, an expert group convened by the WHO said it strongly supports “immediate and widespread access” to booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine amid the global spread of Omicron, the UN’s recommendation last year. To reverse the agency’s repeated insistence that boosters were not necessary for healthy people.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged rich countries not to offer boosters and instead send doses to Africa, saying there is no scientific justification to warrant boosters for healthy people.
Several scientific studies have since proven that booster doses of authorized vaccines help restore weakened immunity and protect against severe COVID-19, especially amid the global spread of omicrons.
In its latest report on the pandemic, released on Wednesday, the UN health agency said new Covid-19 infections fell by 5% over the past week, continuing a downward trend that began more than a month ago. Is. Deaths also decreased by 8% and have been falling globally for the past two weeks.
Only the western Pacific saw a rise in coronavirus cases, recording a 46% increase. According to statistics, over the past week, Hong Kong has been recording around 150 deaths per day, the world’s highest death rate per million people. University of Oxford,
The highly contagious Omicron variant has recently overwhelmed the semi-autonomous Chinese city, prompting mass quarantines, panic in supermarkets and even city morgues, prompting authorities to stow away in refrigerated shipping containers. are forced to store dead bodies.
Elsewhere, Covid-19 is falling significantly; The biggest drop was seen in Middle East and Africa, where cases have declined by 46% and 40%, respectively.
“The softness of the Omicron wave, its low mortality rate and the fact that it is rapidly disappearing, have created the widespread impression that COVID-19 is over,” he said. Salim Abdul Karim Of University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He said it was still unclear when the pandemic might end, but added that the death toll had come down during the Omicron boom.
Many scientists attribute this to booster vaccination programs run in many prosperous countries that have broken the link between COVID-19 infection and serious illness.
Earlier this week, an expert group convened by the WHO said it strongly supports “immediate and widespread access” to booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine amid the global spread of Omicron, the UN’s recommendation last year. To reverse the agency’s repeated insistence that boosters were not necessary for healthy people.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged rich countries not to offer boosters and instead send doses to Africa, saying there is no scientific justification to warrant boosters for healthy people.
Several scientific studies have since proven that booster doses of authorized vaccines help restore weakened immunity and protect against severe COVID-19, especially amid the global spread of omicrons.