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Covid-19 Pandemic plateauing with deaths and cases declining: WHO

"But it’s an unacceptably high plateau, with more than 5.4 million reported Covid-19 cases and almost 90,000 deaths last week," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing.

Updated on: May 11, 2021, 13:30:44 IST
Reuters | Geneva
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The World Health Organization said on Monday the world was seeing a plateauing in the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths, with declines in most regions including the Americas and Europe, the two worst-affected regions.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Reuters)
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Reuters)

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"But it’s an unacceptably high plateau, with more than 5.4 million reported Covid-19 cases and almost 90,000 deaths last week," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing.

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