Europe Press
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday January 28, 2023, p. 9
Geneva. The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned yesterday that there are almost 40,000 weekly deaths from covid-19 worldwide, more than half in China, he said during the opening of the 14th meeting of the Emergency Committee on the pandemic. Entering the fourth year of the global health emergency, he reflected that There is no doubt that we are in a much better situation than a year ago, when the wave of omicron was at its peak and more than 70,000 deaths were reported to the WHO per week. However, since the beginning of December, the number of weekly deaths reported worldwide has been increasing. In addition, the lifting of restrictions in China has caused an increase in deaths in the most populous nation in the world.
, alerted. Likewise, he regretted that the global response against the disease still falls short because in too many countries vaccines are still not reaching the populations that need them most, especially older people and health workers
. The global balance of the pandemic is 6 million 822 thousand 394 deaths and 670 million 71 thousand 152 infections, according to Johns Hopkins University.
