According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of deaths from the coronavirus dropped by 20 percent worldwide last week from last week.
The total number of new cases reported worldwide also declined for the sixth consecutive week, WHO said, with 2.4 million new cases last week. That figure represents an 11 percent drop from the week before.
According to figures from the Global Health Alliance, there have also been deaths from coronavirus cases worldwide in the past three weeks, 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 start of the pandemic.
The United States passed the grim milestone of 500,000 lives lost in the pandemic earlier this week. President Biden
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“But while we recognize the magnitude of this mass death in America, we remember every person and the life they lived. They are people we knew. They are people we think we knew,” Biden said during a speech at Monday. Read the obituaries and reminders. The son who called his mother every night to check in. The daughter of the father who lit up his world. The best friend that was always there. The nurse – the nurse and the nurses – but the nurse her patients want to live. ”
Most developed countries have embarked on a massive government vaccination campaign, with an estimated 64 million doses administered in the US since mid-December.
Biden has promised that any American who wants a vaccine should have access to a vaccine by mid-summer and has begged citizens to continue to follow strict public health measures, even after vaccination, to allow the pandemic to unfold.
“But even after you get vaccinated, social distance and mask wearing will be essential, and we’ll have to keep communicating about that,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki
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