WHO announced the flattening of the COVID-19 curve worldwide

WHO announced the flattening of the COVID-19 curve worldwide

WHO head Maria Van Kerkhove: the world has reached a plateau in the incidence of COVID-19

ZURICH, September 7 - RIA Novosti. The world has reached a plateau in terms of the incidence of COVID-19, but the situation in the regions is different, said Maria Van Kerkhove, Head of the Technical Team of the Emergency Diseases Department of the World Health Organization.

"This plateau is at a fairly high level of intensity. Thus, there are about 4.4-4.5 million cases every week, and this is certainly an underestimate of the true number of cases that do occur worldwide," she explained. ...

In addition, according to the WHO, 67-68 thousand deaths from coronavirus are recorded in the world every week.

Van Kerkhove indicated that the number of infections and the number of deaths is increasing in South and North America. In Europe, a decrease in the incidence is recorded, but the number of deaths is increasing. In Asia, both mortality and incidence of COVID-19 are declining.

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