New COVID-19 situations down 16% last week: WHO
18 February, 2021
The number of new cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide fell by 16 % last week to 2.7 million, the Environment Health Organization (WHO) stated.
The number of new deaths reported also fell 10 per cent week-on-week, to 81,000, the WHO said on Tuesday (Feb 16) in its weekly epidemiological update, using figures up to Sunday.
Five of the six Who actually regions of the community reported a good double-digit percentage decline found in new cases, with just the Eastern Mediterranean showing a growth, of seven %.
New case numbers dropped 20 % the other day in Africa and on the Western Pacific, 18 per cent in Europe, 16 per cent on the Americas and 13 per cent in southeast Asia.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the number of new conditions had declined for a fifth consecutive week, dropping by almost 1 / 2, from a lot more than five million cases in the week of January 4.
"This demonstrates simple public health methods work, even in the existence of variants," Tedros said.
"What matters now could be how we respond to this style. The fire isn't out, but we have lowered its size. If we end fighting it on any front, it'll come roaring back."
The coronavirus variant of concern first detected in Britain was reported in 94 countries in the week to Mon, the epidemiological update said, a rise of eight.
Localized transmission of the variant, instead of imported cases, has been reported in at least 47 countries.
The variant first spotted in South Africa was recorded in 46 countries, up to two, with local transmission in at least 12 of these nations.
The so-called Brazilian variant was detected in 21 countries, up to six, with the regional transmission in at least two countries.
COVAX DELIVERY PLANS
The COVAX facility, the global COVID-19 vaccine procurement and distribution work which aims to make sure poorer countries are also able to access doses, said its final shipment list because of its first deliveries will be issued next week, following the WHO's approval of the AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use.
On Mon, the WHO gave the press to the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine being created in vegetation in India and South Korea, meaning it can now be shipped out via COVAX, giving many countries their primary COVID-19 shots.
"COVAX anticipates the bulk of the first circular of deliveries occurring found in March, with some early shipments ... occurring in overdue February," the WHO co-led center said in a statement.
The interim distribution list issued on February 3 broke straight down the programme's initial 337.2 million doses - which all, barring 1.2 million Pfizer-BioNTech dosages, happen to be from AstraZeneca. Both WHO-approved vaccines need two injected doses.
Some 145 economies participating in COVAX are place to receive enough doses to immunise 3.3 % of their collective inhabitants by mid-2021.
"Deliveries for this first spherical of allocation will take place on a rolling basis and found in tranches," COVAX said.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
TAG(s):