The global coronavirus balance reaches 250 million cases on Sunday. Some Eastern European countries are still facing record outbreaks.
The global cases caused by COVID-19 reach 250 million cases on Sunday, as the wave caused by the Delta variant attenuates and trade and tourism resume, although some Eastern European countries face record outbreaks, informs Mediafax .
In the last three months, the average daily number of cases has dropped by 36%, according to a Reuters analysis.
Even though the spread has slowed, the virus continues to infect 50 million people every 90 days due to the highly contagious Delta variant, the analysis shows.
It took almost a year to register the first 50 million cases of COVID.
Health experts are optimistic that many nations have overcome the pandemic due to vaccines and natural exposure, although they warn that colder weather and future holidays could increase the number of cases.
“We believe that between now and the end of 2022, this is the point where we gain control over this virus … where we can significantly reduce serious illness and death,” Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist at the World Health Organization, told Reuters. Health.
In addition to vaccines, doctors now have better treatments. The UK on Thursday became the first country in the world to approve the COVID-19 antiviral pill, developed jointly by Merck (MRK.N) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, called molnupiravir, which could change games. Studies have shown that this could halve the chances of death or hospitalization for those most at risk of developing severe COVID-19 when given early in the disease.
Infections continue to rise in 55 of 240 countries, with Russia, Ukraine and Greece at or near record levels of cases reported since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a Reuters analysis.
Eastern Europe has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the region. More than half of all new infections reported worldwide come from European countries, with one million new infections about every four days, according to the analysis.
More than half of the world’s population has not yet received a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, according to Our World in Data. Less than 5% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose.
Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies to fund a $ 23.4 billion plan to bring COVID-19 vaccines, tests and drugs to the poorest countries in the world. the next 12 months.
