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Global COVID-19 infections up for first time in 7 weeks, WHO says – Al Jazeera English
Cases are rising due to relaxing of health measures, circulation of variants and ‘people letting down their guard’.
The number of new coronavirus infections globally rose last week for the first time in seven weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva the increase in cases was disappointing but not surprising, noting that the upward trend was taking place everywhere in the world apart from Africa and the Western Pacific region.
Some of it appears to be due to relaxing of public health measures, continued circulation of variants…
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