The World Health Organization says 15,000 people worldwide have died from the coronavirus in the past week alone.
WHO says that the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the world in the last four weeks has increased by 35%. The World Health Organization announced this on Twitter.
“In the last four weeks, the number of reported deaths from COVID-19 worldwide has increased by 35%. In the last week alone, 15,000 people worldwide have died from COVID-19. This is completely which is unacceptable when we have all the tools to prevent infections and save lives,” the statement said.
The doctors also noted that the Omicron strain remains dominant, while its subvariant BA.5 represents more than 90% of the sequences.
“On #Covid-19, in the past four weeks, reported deaths worldwide have increased by 35%. This past week, 15,000 people around the world died of COVID-19. This is completely unacceptable, when we have all the tools to prevent infections and save lives”-@DrTedros
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) August 17, 2022
It will be remembered that the wife of the President of the United States, Jill Biden, was diagnosed with COVID-19. However, he experiences mild symptoms of the disease.
It was also reported that the CEO of the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Albert Burla, fell ill with the coronavirus after four Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations.
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