Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world on Feb. 22 – CBC
New global COVID-19 cases have dropped for a 3rd straight week, says WHO
Feb 22, 2022
The number of new coronavirus cases around the world fell 21 per cent in the last week, marking the third consecutive week that COVID-19 cases have dropped, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
In the UN health agency’s weekly pandemic report, the WHO said there were more than 12 million new coronavirus infections last week. The number of new COVID-19 deaths fell eight per cent to about 67,000 worldwide, the first time that weekly deaths have fallen since early January.
The Western Pacific was the only region that saw an increase in COVID-19 cases, with a 29 per cent jump, while the number of infections elsewhere dropped significantly. The number of new deaths also rose in the Western Pacific and Africa while falling everywhere else. The highest number of new COVID-19 cases were seen in Russia, Germany, Brazil, the U.S. and South Korea.
WHO said Omicron remains the overwhelmingly dominant variant worldwide, accounting for more than 99 per cent of sequences shared with the world’s biggest virus database. It said Delta was the only other variant of significance, making up fewer than one per cent of shared sequences.
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