Posted on 11/09/2022 2:40:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
The World Health Organization chief on Wednesday said a nearly 90% drop in recent COVID-19 deaths globally compared to nine months ago provides "cause for optimism," but still urged vigilance against the pandemic as variants continue to crop up.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that last week just over 9,400 deaths linked to the coronavirus were reported to the WHO. In February of this year, he said, weekly deaths had topped 75,000 globally.
"We have come a long way, and this is definitely cause for optimism. But we continue to call on all governments, communities and individuals to remain vigilant," he said at a virtual news conference from the WHO's Geneva headquarters.
"Almost 10,000 deaths a week is 10,000 too many for a disease that can be prevented and treated."
The WHO chief said testing and sequencing rates remain low globally, vaccination gaps between rich and poor countries are still wide, and new variants continue to proliferate.
The U.N. health agency said the tally of newly registered COVID-19 cases worldwide came in at over 2.1 million for the week ending Sunday, down 15% from the previous week. The number of weekly deaths fell 10% compared to a week earlier.
Overall, the WHO has reported 629 million cases and 6.5 million deaths linked to the pandemic.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead on COVID-19, cited a "substantial underestimate" of the true circulation of the virus because surveillance and testing have declined along with a drop in case counts. She said the coronavirus outbreak is "still a pandemic, and it's still circulating quite rampantly around the world" — and a key focus now was on hospitalizations and deaths.
The highest number of newly reported cases over the week came in Japan, with more than 401,000, an increase of 42% from the previous week. That was followed by Korea, the United States, Germany and China, which counted more than 219,000 new cases over the week — a drop of 15% from the previous week.
China still saw 539 deaths linked to COVID-19 during the week, an increase of 10% from the previous week.
While its numbers have remained relatively low, China has relentlessly pursued a strict "zero-COVID" policy of quarantines, lockdowns and daily or near-daily compulsory testing that has fanned protests and clashes between residents and authorities at times.
More vax mandates STAT!
The day after election day ..
As if it’s not obvious. WHO, who said it wasn’t transmissible initially because the chicoms said it wasn’t, are always right on the ball ahead of the curve.
The WHO and WEF are deeply saddened.
I can’t think of a more useless organization. UN: hold my beer.
But, only 15% of Americans are up to date on their boosters, the lowest figure in months!!?
Hmmm...
That was about the time the media stopped talking about it.
Then all of the sudden “We had herd immunity”
They should drop the overall BS fatalities by 99%... Biggest scam ever. The real fatality rate is starting to build up from the jab.
The democrats had a good covid.
It’s nothing like November - December 2000.
When governments stop pronouncing every death not caused by an obvious gunshot wound, or a car accident as a Covid death... The rates drop dramatically.
New narrative of fear being worked on.
“Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus”
Yeah. That’s not a shithole name.
So is at least one FReeper who loves to gloat about COVID deaths.
WHO Reports 90% Drop in World COVID-19 Deaths Since February
In the words of Ralphie Wiggum “Thats Unpossible”
Is that a question?
Magic, just like they changed the reporting.
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