According to WHO's COVID-19 technical lead Maria van Kerkhove, more than 11 million cases have been reported to WHO in the last week, an eight-percent increase over the previous week. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that globally increasing cases despite reduced testing "m...
Since the first week of last September, there have been nearly 7.7 million additional child cases in the United States, according to the report.■
Cases decreased over the border in NSW. NSW recorded 38,610 new infections in the past week (down by around 2000 from last week) and 78 people died with the virus. There are now 1618 COVID-19 patients in the state’s hospitals and 34 people in ICU. Victoria’s caseload and death ...
COVID-19 Cases in Australia's Hotspot Fall to Seven-Week Low More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A cyclist adjusts his protective face mask in Melbourne after it became the first city in Australia to enforce mask-wearing in public as part of efforts to curb a resurgence of the co...
PARIS (Reuters) - France's health authorities on Sunday reported 7,183 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, down from a record 10,561 new infections on Saturday. In a daily website update, the French health ministry also reported the number of arrivals in hospital ...
The spike in cases mirrors national trends.The Centers for Disease Control and Preventionreported that hospital admissions across the country for COVID-19 related illnesses are up more than 14% in the last week. Deaths of patients with the virus are up 10% over the same timeframe. ...
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday that children are being infected at a much higher rate than in 2020. More than 580,000 US pediatric Covid-19 cases were reported last week alone, the Ame...
Tennessee, which reported the country’s worst Covid-19 cases rate, had the sixth-best rate of new vaccinations per capita in the US over the past week. The state’s hospitals are “under increasing strain from the highly contagious Delta variant,” Tennessee’s health department wrote on ...
Last week, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the US has been "politicizing, weaponizing and manipulating" the efforts to trace the virus' origins to smear and attack China without providing evidence. China has always supported and participated in global science-based origins tracing...
A man wearing a face mask walks along the Seine River in Paris, France, Jan. 5, 2022. The French Public Health Agency reported on Wednesday 332,252 new COVID-19 cases detected in the last 24 hours, breaking the daily record set on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Gao Jing) ...