WHO reported decrease in deaths

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded the fewest reported deaths from coronavirus since early October 2020. In the week from June 28 to July 4, there were just under 54,000, seven percent fewer than the week before, WHO announced today in Geneva.

At the same time, the number of reported infections worldwide rose slightly, to just over 2.6 million in that week. The increase was particularly strong in the WHO European region, which includes 53 countries from Portugal to Tajikistan: up 30 percent from the previous week.

The particularly contagious delta variant of the virus was detected in seven additional countries, and now in 104 of the 194 WHO member countries in total.

This brings the total number of infections reported since the start of the pandemic to a good 183 million, and nearly four million people have died with CoV infection. The WHO assumes that the number of unreported cases is high because not all cases are detected and reported in all countries.