The number of coronavirus deaths fell by 20% worldwide last week compared to the previous week, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The total number of new cases reported also fell globally for the sixth consecutive week, the WHO said, with 2.4 million new cases last week. This figure represents a decrease of 11% compared to the previous week.
Also, deaths from coronavirus worldwide have declined in the past three weeks, according to figures analyzed by the World Health Alliance, with 66,000 new deaths reported last week.
The WHO estimates that 110.7 million cases and more than 2.4 million deaths have been reported worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic.
The United States passed the negative milestone of 500,000 lives lost in the pandemic earlier this week. President Biden
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“But as we recognize the magnitude of this mass death in America, we remember each person and the life they lived. There are people we knew. There are people we feel we would have known.” , Biden said in a speech Monday. “Read the obituaries and memories. The son who calls his mother every night just for check-in. The father’s daughter who enlightened his world. The best friend who has always been there. The nurse – the nurse – but the nurse who made her patients they want to live. ”
Most developed countries have begun a mass government vaccination campaign, with approximately 64 million doses being administered in the United States since mid-December.
Biden promised that every American who wants a vaccine should have access to one by mid-summer and called on citizens to continue to follow strict public health measures even after inoculation to allow the pandemic to continue.
“But even after you are vaccinated, social distance and wearing masks will be essential and we will have to keep talking about it,” the White House press secretary said. Jen Psaki
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