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WHO reports 14% drop in global Covid-19 cases

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Google Translater for Website Click on the dropdown button to translate. Translate this page: You can translate the content of this page by selecting a language in the select box. From CNN Health's Lauren Mascarenhas There were 4.1 million global Covid-19 cases reported in the week ending May 23 -- a 14% decrease from the previous week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Tuesday. WHO also reported 84,000 new Covid-19 deaths worldwide, a 2% decrease from the prior week. The largest decline in new cases and deaths was in the European region, the report noted. However, WHO warned global Covid cases remained high overall. “Despite a declining global trend over the past four weeks, incidence of Covid-19 cases and deaths remain high, and substantial increases have been observed in many countries throughout the world,” the report said.  India reported the highest number of new cases by far -- 1,846,055 -- though that was a 23% decrease from the...

One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates

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Haiti has one of the lowest death rates from COVID-19 in the world.  As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. The Caribbean nation, which often struggles with infectious diseases, has a COVID-19 death rate of just 22 per million. In the U.S. the COVID-19 death rate is 1,800 per million, and in parts of Europe. the fatality rate is approaching 3,000 deaths per million. Haiti's success is not due to some innovative intervention against the virus. Most people have given up wearing masks in public. Buses and markets are crowded. And Haiti hasn't yet administered a single COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Jean "Bill" Pape says a combination of factors have kept the death rate so low. Pape played a role similar to Dr. Anthony Fauci's in the U.S. The 74-year-old Haitian doctor served as the co-chair of a national commission in Haiti to deal with COVID-19, leading the country's effort to deal with the cri...

Le vaccin Pfizer bientôt pour les ados aux États-Unis

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