The number of new coronavirus cases fell globally last week including in the Western Pacific region where they had been rising since December, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.
As overall case rates fell, the U.N. agency also reported the number of people killed by the coronavirus surged by more than 40 percent over the same period, likely due to changes in how deaths were reported across the Americas and by newly adjusted figures from India.
AP reports about 10 million new coronavirus infections and more than 45,000 deaths were reported worldwide over the past week, following a 23 percent drop in fatalities the week before.
Overall, a total of 10,805,132 new cases and 45,711 deaths were reported to the global organization on March 21-27.
In Europe, which accounts for 49 percent of all new cases registered worldwide in the past week, the case count declined by four percent.
The agency warned countries in recent weeks against dropping their comprehensive testing and other surveillance measures, saying any relaxation of social control and monitoring would cripple efforts to accurately track the spread of the virus, the AP report outlined.
Despite the global decline in reported cases, China locked down Shanghai this week to try to curb an omicron outbreak that has caused the country's biggest wave of disease since the virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019, as Breitbart News reported.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
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