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Global COVID-19 total surges past 17 million | CIDRAP – CIDRAP
Many nations have struggled with protecting vulerable people in nursing homes from COVID-19, and the WHO released a new resource aimed at preventing virus spread in the settings.
The global COVID-19 total today crossed the 17 million case threshold, a day that also marked 6 months since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations.
It only took 4 days for the pandemic total to rise from 16 million to 17 million, and on the day the WHO declared the PHEIC on Jan 30, there were nearly 8,000 cases in the world, most of them in China. Today, the global total cli…
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