Covid cases are continuing to soar in several countriesThe number of lives lost - as compiled by Johns Hopkins University - is almost equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal.But the true number is believed to be significantly higher because of possible government concealment and the many cases overlooked in the early stages of the outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019.
Worldwide, deaths are on the rise again, running at around 12,000 per day on average, and new cases are climbing too, surpassing 700,000 a day. When the world back in January passed the bleak threshold of two million deaths, immunisation drives had just started in Europe and the United States. Today, they are underway in more than 190 countries - though progress in bringing the virus under control varies widely.pandemic is raging on as hospital workers grapple with rising infection rates in some countries.warned Covid's grip on the world is "nowhere near finished"Its special envoy Dr David Nabarro, said the UK is bucking the trend with falling cases and deaths while in most parts of the globe coronavirus is rampant.
Addressing the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Dr Nabarro said new variants will be a "regular" occurrence while the virus is still prevalent around the world."Each week we have seen four and a half million cases being reported and know those are an enormous underestimate. And we are still seeing a really significant number of deaths.
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