Health
Second year of pandemic ‘may be tougher’ – The West Australian
The World Health Organisation says five million new coronavirus cases were reported globally last week.
The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic may be tougher than the first given how the new coronavirus is spreading, especially in the northern hemisphere as more-infectious variants circulate, the World Health Organisation says.
“Going into a second year of this could even be tougher given some of the transmission dynamics,” the WHO’s Mike Ryan said during an event on social media.
The WHO, in its latest epidemiological update issued overnight, said that after two weeks of fewer cases being reported,…
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