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"As the World Health Organization prepares to decide whether COVID-19 remains a
global emergency, the UN agency’s director-general says key pandemic indicators
are going in the wrong direction, including a rising number of deaths.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday he is “very concerned” about the
ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and the impact it continues to have in many
countries.
“In the past eight weeks, more than 170,000 people have died of COVID-19.
That’s just reported, as the actual number of deaths is much higher,” he said.
“While I will not preempt the advice of the emergency committee, I remain very
concerned by the situation in many countries and the rising number of deaths.”
WHO data shows that in the 28 days between Dec. 19, 2022, and Jan. 15, the
number of COVID deaths worldwide increased by 20 per cent compared with the
previous 28 days. Over 662 million confirmed cases and over 6.7 million deaths
have been reported globally.
In Canada, the death toll from COVID-19 surpassed a grim milestone of 50,000,
the country’s public health agency confirmed Monday.
Tedros warned the figures do not tell the whole story, as WHO has seen a
“dramatic” decline in surveillance and genetic sequencing of the virus, which
leaves health experts in the dark when it comes to efforts to track existing
variants and detect new ones.
The UN agency has been raising concern about this drop in monitoring of the
virus for a number of months, saying in December this could open the door to a
new variant of concern."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: January 26, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-77754004
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
