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Weekly global COVID-19 deaths lowest in about a year: Report

Misbah Ali

The weekly number of COVID-19 fatalities across the globe has fallen to levels unseen for almost a year, according to the count of an international news agency based on official national figures.

The 53,245 fatalities reported globally between September 27 and October 3, an average of 7,606 each day, showed that the pandemic continues the downward trend that began at the end of August, after a peak of about 10,000 fatalities per day.

The fresh figure of weekly deaths is the lowest logged since October 31-November 6, 2020.

Over the last month, the number of fatalities related to COVID-19 has dropped by almost a quarter, as inoculation campaigns make progress.

After a year of COVID-19 waves linked in particular to the outbreak of strains including the hyper contagious Delta variant, the curve of fresh infection is also down, by almost a third compared to the end of August.

With nearly 81 doses of anti-coronavirus vaccine administered per 100 inhabitants globally, as per the count, the authorities hope to see this downward trend continue, even if there are still major disparities between regions.

For every 100 residents of North America 123 vaccine doses have been administered. The number for Africa is 11 doses per 100 people, with half the countries on the continent managing to fully inoculate just 2% of their population, as per the World Health Organisation's Africa office.

Since the coronavirus was first detected in China in late 2019, about 4.8 million people have died of coronavirus around the world.

The global health body has said that taking into account excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to the pandemic’s true cumulative toll could be two to three times more than official records.

 


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