GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week is the lowest recorded in the pandemic since March 2020, marking what could be a turning point in the years-long global epidemic.
At a press conference in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world has never been better positioned to prevent COVID-19.
“We’ve arrived, but the end is in sight,” he said, comparing the effort to that of a marathon runner reaching the finish line. “This is the worst time to avoid running,” he said. Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap all the rewards of our hard work. “
In its weekly report on the pandemic, the United Nations fitness firm said deaths fell 22% last week, with just over 11,000 reported worldwide. all regions of the world.
However, the WHO has warned that the rest of covid testing and surveillance in many countries means that many cases go unnoticed. COVID-19, please note that new variants may override the progress made to date.
“If we don’t seize this opportunity now, we run the threat of more variants, more deaths, more disruptions and more uncertainty,” Tedros said.
The WHO reported that the subvariant omicron BA. 5 continues to dominate globally and includes only about 90% of virus samples shared with the world’s largest public database. the original coronavirus and upcoming variants, adding BA. 5.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, said the organization expected waves of the disease in the long term, but hoped they wouldn’t cause many deaths.
Meanwhile, in China, citizens of a city in the Far West region of Xinjiang said they were suffering from hunger, forced quarantines and dwindling stocks of medicines and must-have items after more than 40 days of COVID-19-induced lockdown.
Hundreds of Ghulja posts fascinated Chinese social media users last week, with locals sharing videos of empty refrigerators, feverish youths and others screaming from their windows.
On Monday, local police announced the arrest of six other people for “spreading rumours” about the closure, adding messages about a dead child and an alleged suicide, which they said “incited the opposition” and “disturbed social order”.
Leaked rules from government offices show that staff are ordered negative data and instead spread “positive energy. “
The government ordered massive and district closures in cities across China in recent weeks, from Sanya on the tropical island of Hainan southwest of Chengdu to the northern port city of Dalian.
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