GENEVA (Reuters) – Global deaths from COVID-19 are expected to exceed 100,000 per week “very soon,” out of more than 93,000 reported last week, said Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization’s top emergency response expert, Monday. .
In an epidemiological update provided to the WHO board meeting, he added that the Americas region is responsible for about 47 percent of current deaths. In Europe, cases and deaths are stabilizing, but at a high level, he said.
“Currently our epidemiological situation is dynamic and uneven, it is further complicated by variants,” he told the board.
Reporting by Stephanie Negripay and Emma Farge