Global Covid-19 Infections Down 16% Last Week, Deaths Drop 10%

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The number of new COVID-19 cases reported worldwide fell by 16 percent last week to 2.7 million, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

The number of new deaths reported also fell 10% week-on-week, to 81,000, the WHO said in its weekly epidemiological update, using figures up to Sunday.

Five of the six WHO regions of the world reported a double-digit percentage decline in new cases, with only the Eastern Mediterranean showing a rise, of seven percent.

New case numbers dropped 20% last week in Africa and in the Western Pacific, 18% in Europe, 16% in the Americas and 13% in southeast Asia.

Read more at Times of Israel.

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