Latest: WHO Reports Big Drop In New Coronavirus Infections
Source: AP News
GENEVA The World Health Organization said there were about 4 million coronavirus cases reported globally last week, marking the first major drop in new infections in more than two months. In recent weeks, there have been about 4.4 million new COVID-19 cases.
In its weekly update released on Tuesday, the U.N. health agency said every region in the world saw a drop in COVID-19 cases compared to the previous week.
Although the worldwide number of deaths decreased to about 62,000, with the sharpest decline in Southeast Asia, there was a 7% increase in deaths in Africa. The highest numbers of cases were seen in the U.S., Britain, India, Iran and Turkey and the highly contagious delta variant has now been reported in 180 countries.
WHO also said children and teenagers continue to be less affected by COVID-19 when compared to adults, adding that deaths of people under 24 due to the disease account for fewer than 0.5% of global deaths. WHO has previously said children should not be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccinations given the extreme vaccine shortages globally. -
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/europe-health-asia-coronavirus-pandemic-united-nations-cede164851d7ab6cb5d79c88ff990cf9
- Students socially distance as they sit in a classroom at the Preah Sisowath high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sept. 15, 2021. The Municipal of Phnom Penh recently issued a statement to reopen junior high and high schools due to the high number of vaccination rates for teachers and students, low infection rates and the schools' to compliance to health standards. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith).
BumRushDaShow
(127,281 posts)And that's all there really is to it.
And this misinformation continues to be perpetuated -
They have been doing this type of lagged and incorrect proclamation for everything from refusing to call COVID-19 a "pandemic" until months after the first cases the winter before, to insisting that COVID-19 wasn't being spread by asymptomatic people, to how the virus was transmitted and couldn't be by aerosolization, for the past 20 months now because they are obviously "months behind" in terms of the data reality.
underpants
(182,271 posts)JohnSJ
(91,941 posts)million to 4 million weekly cases, does not necessarily indicate a trend
Since the beginning of the pandemic, WHO and the CDC have been tainted with political influences, and I suspect those interferences are still there
Initech
(99,909 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)Response to appalachiablue (Original post)
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bucolic_frolic
(42,662 posts)Absent more mutations it is possible that peak infections is past