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Weekly Covid-19 cases and deaths continue to decline globally: WHO
Updated On: 02 October, 2021 01:12 PM IST | United Nations/Geneva | Agencies
The WHO says the largest decrease was reported from the Eastern Mediterranean Region (17 per cent), followed by the Western Pacific Region (15 per cent), while the South-East Asia Region reported a 10 per cent decline
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Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) legislators down a podium as they protest calling for the government to apologise for coronavirus deaths, at the Parliament in Taipei on Friday. Pic/AFP
The number of weekly Covid-19 cases and deaths continued to decline globally, the World Health Organisation has said, noting that both the case and death incidence have reduced for the past two months in the South-East Asian region.
The Covid-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, released this week, said over 3.3 million new cases and over 55,000 new deaths were reported around the world during the week of September 20-26, 2021, a decrease of 10 per cent as compared to the previous week for both cases and deaths.
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