End of Covid pandemic in sight: WHO

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The world has never been in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the WHO said recently, his most optimistic outlook yet on the years-long health crisis which has killed over six million people. Read more at

Newly reported cases of the disease, which has killed millions since being identified in late 2019, last week fell to the lowest level since March 2020, said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus .

But the agency has warned that the falling number of reported cases is deceptive, since many countries have cut back on testing and may not be detecting the less serious cases. Since the start of the pandemic, WHO has tallied more than 605 million cases, and some 6.4 million deaths, although both those numbers are also believed to be serious undercounts.

But, she added,"those future waves of infection do not need to translate into future waves of death".

 

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