The number of new Covid-19 cases worldwide dropped 19% last week, while recorded deaths remained stable, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) report on the coronavirus pandemic.
The United Nations health agency counted “just over 16 million new cases and just under 75,000 deaths were reported” globally during the week of February 7-13. However, the number of deaths has increased by 38% in the Eastern Mediterranean region and by about a third in the Western Pacific, according to the WHO’s weekly report – which further pointed out that the other variants of the coronavirus, including Alpha, Beta and Delta , continue to decline globally as the Omicron strain eliminates them.
Among the more than 400,000 Covid-19 virus sequences uploaded to the world’s largest virus database in the last week, more than 98% were Ômicron.
The WHO said the BA.2 version of Ômicron appears to be “constantly increasing” and its prevalence has increased in South Africa, Denmark, the UK and other countries.
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