More than 4.1 million cases were reported globally last week, according to the World Health Organization.
While vaccinations have greatly cut down on hospitalizations and deaths, COVID-19 cases are on the rise again around the world.
His concern, he said, is that countries have gotten lax on tracking cases and transmission, even as the most vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly and health care workers, remain unvaccinated. Cases in the U.S. are slightly up, with a rolling seven-day daily average of 108,505 new cases as of Wednesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In New York, trends are the same, even after Mayor Eric Adams dropped the city’s COVID alert level to “medium” last week.
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