{"id":37031,"date":"2021-02-13T18:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=37031"},"modified":"2021-02-13T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:54:27","slug":"global-coronavirus-cases-deaths-drop-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/global-coronavirus-cases-deaths-drop-who","title":{"rendered":"Global coronavirus cases, deaths drop \u2013 WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported a decline in COVID-19 cases globally.<\/p>\n<p>The UN agency stated that there was a 17 percent drop compared with last week.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, also said the number of deaths had reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the fourth week of declining cases. The number of deaths also fell for the second week in a row, with 88,000 new deaths reported last week,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>He linked the declines to countries\u2019 stringent implementation of public health measures.<\/p>\n<p>Ghebreyesus, however, warned that despite the positive development, it was not yet time to let down guard.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO DG added that the virus continues to circulate widely, with new variants emerging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time the virus mutates, it has the potential to blunt the effectiveness of our vaccines, medicines and tests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The health body advocated an urgent need for a coordinated approach to variant surveillance and more evaluation to help decipher the potential impact on vaccine potency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported a decline in COVID-19 cases globally. The UN agency stated that there was a 17 percent drop compared with last week. On Friday, Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, also said the number of deaths had reduced. \u201cThis is the fourth week of declining cases. The number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":37030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1386,254,728],"class_list":["post-37031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-coronavirus","tag-nigeria","tag-who"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Global coronavirus cases, deaths drop \u2013 WHO - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported a decline in COVID-19 cases globally. 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