In its weekly update published on Tuesday, the UN health agency said that every region of the world has seen a decrease in Covid-19 cases compared to the previous week.
The WHO also said that children and adolescents continue to be less affected by Covid-19. (Representative image)
According to the WHO, about 4 million coronavirus cases were reported worldwide last week, marking the first major drop in new infections in more than two months.
There have been around 4.4 million new Covid-19 cases in the past few weeks.
In its weekly update published on Tuesday, the UN health agency said that every region of the world has seen a decrease in Covid-19 cases compared to the previous week.
Although the global death toll has decreased to about 62,000, with the sharpest drop in Southeast Asia, there has been a 7 percent increase in deaths in Africa.
The highest case numbers were observed in the US, UK, India, Iran and Turkey, and the highly contagious Delta variant has now been reported in 180 countries.
The WHO also said that children and adolescents continue to be less affected by Covid-19 compared to adults, adding that deaths of people under the age of 24 due to the disease account for less than 0.5 percent of global deaths.
The WHO previously said that children should not be given priority treatment for Covid-19 vaccinations given the extreme global vaccine shortage.
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