'Cause for optimism': WHO reports 90 percent drop in Covid-19 deaths globally compared with nine months ago
The UN health agency said the tally of newly registered Covid-19 cases worldwide came in at over 2.1 million for the week ending Sunday, down 15 percent from the previous week.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that last week just over 9,400 deaths linked to the coronavirus were reported to the WHO. “We have come a long way, and this is definitely cause for optimism. But we continue to call on all governments, communities and individuals to remain vigilant,” he said at a virtual news conference from the WHO's Geneva headquarters.
The highest number of newly reported cases over the week came in Japan, with more than 401,000, an increase of 42 percent from the previous week. That was followed by Korea, the United States, Germany and China, which counted more than 219,000 new cases over the week — a drop of 15 percent from the previous week.
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