Global COVID-19 cases are down 24% and COVID deaths down 6%, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its weekly update.
In US COVID news, Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), outlined a plan to revamp the agency in the wake of pandemic missteps.
Officials worldwide reported 5.4 million new COVID-19 cases last week, down 24% from the week before, according to the WHO's weekly epidemiologic update today. More than 15,000 deaths were confirmed, down 6%.
Cases declined in all global regions, most dramatically in Africa and Europe (both down 38%) and the Eastern Mediterranean (down 30%). Deaths increased 31% in the Western Pacific and 12% in Southeast Asia but dropped in all other regions.
At a WHO briefing today, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said that, while the number of weekly deaths has fallen recently, over the past 4 weeks they rose 35% globally.
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