According to WHO regional offices, Americas remains the most affected area by COVID-19, with a total of 16,434,186 confirmed cases and 551,313 deaths. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that the one-million death toll is a "difficult moment for the world but ...
Aside from the deaths directly caused by COVID-19, the "indirect deaths" were attributable to other health conditions for which people were unable to access prevention and treatment, because health systems were overburdened by the pandemic. The WHO said most of the excess deaths -- 84 percent ...
"On COVID-19, there's good news. Last week, the lowest number of COVID-19 deaths was recorded since the early days of the pandemic," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press briefing here on Wednesday. According to the WHO, the global number of new COVID-19 cases...
More than 80% of COVID-19 global deaths during the first two years of the pandemic were among people aged 60 and older, according to a new study from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Related: WHO Says COVID-...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 400 million, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO).Globally, as of 5:13 pm CET (1613 GMT) on Thursday, there have been 402,044,502 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,770,023 deaths, ...
WHO COVID-19 Dashboard is updated every Friday for the period of two weeks prior. Counts primarily reflect laboratory-confirmed cases and deaths, based upon WHO case definitions; although some departures may exist due to local adaptations. Counts include both domestic and repatriated cases. Case...
WHO said it wasn’t yet able to break down the data to distinguish between direct deaths from COVID-19 and those related to effects of the pandemic, but the agency plans a future project examining death certificates. “This may seem like just a bean-counting exercise, but ha...
#COVID19cases & deaths continue to decline, which is very good news. However, reduced testing in many countries makes us blind to patterns of transmission & evolution. When it comes to a deadly virus, ignorance is not bliss.@WHOcalls for countries to maintain surveillance.pic.twitter.com/ND...
As time goes by, the push for a return to pre-COVID normalcy seems to brush aside the staggering toll. The US has already charted its path into new normalcy, but there's nothing normal about this many deaths, about those who are still dying from the virus, and about life with no pol...
"We're adding about 1.8 to two million cases per week to the global case count, and an average somewhere between 40,000 to 50,000 deaths," WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan told a virtual news conference. "Thankfully that is not rising exponentially. This is a hugely high figure to ...