AP report. Notably, closer home in India, the daily cases climbed to 12,608 fresh cases on Thursday, taking the country's total tally of Covid-19 cases to 4,42,98,864, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
Covid-19 infections reportedly dropped across the the world, including by nearly 40% in Africa and Europe and by a third in the Middle East, even as Covid deaths rose in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia by 31% and 12% respectively, but fell or remained stable everywhere else, the report said.
It is worth noting that at a press briefing on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had notified that the reported Covid-19 deaths over the past month surged 35%, stating that there had been 15,000 deaths in the past week.
The WHO chief said, “15,000 deaths a week is completely unacceptable, when we have all the tools to prevent infections and save lives," adding that the number of virus sequences shared every week has plummeted 90%, making it extremely difficult for scientists to monitor how Covid-19 might be mutating, according to AP report.