According to the World Health Organization (WHO), last week the number of coronavirus-related deaths fell by 20% worldwide globally.
The total number of new cases reported also fell globally for the sixth consecutive week, the WHO said, with 2.4 million new cases last week. This figure represents a decrease of 11 percent over the previous week.
Coronavirus deaths worldwide have also fallen in the past three weeks, according to figures analyzed by the global health alliance, with 66,000 new deaths reported last week.
The WHO estimates that 110.7 million cases and more than 2.4 million deaths worldwide have been reported since the start of the pandemic.
The United States surpassed earlier this week the obscure milestone of 500,000 lives lost by the pandemic. President Biden
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“But when we recognize the magnitude of this mass death in the United States, we remember every person and life they lived. They are people we knew. They are people we feel as we knew them,” Biden said during a speech Monday. “Read the obituaries and the memoirs. The son who called his mother every night just to register. The father’s daughter who lit up his world. The best friend who was ever there. The nurse, the nurse and the nurses, but the nurse who did their patients want to live. ”
Most developed countries have begun a massive government vaccination campaign, with an estimated 64 million doses administered in the U.S. since mid-December.
Biden has promised that all Americans who want a vaccine should get one in mid-summer and has called on citizens to continue to follow strict public health measures even after inoculation in order to allow the pandemic to continue. its course.
“But even after you are vaccinated, social distancing and the use of masks will be essential and we will have to continue to communicate about this,” the White House press secretary said. Jen Psaki
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