Global COVID markers decline, but hot spots remain in Asia and the Mideast

Global COVID markers decline, but hot spots remain in two regions CIDRAP

Though COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to decline over the past 4 weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) is tracking rises in two of its regions, South East Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. In its weekly update today, it also noted rises in individual countries in other parts of the world.

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In related developments, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) today in its weekly COVID snapshot said activity is decreasing or stable across most of the region, with death rates stable. Of five countries with adequate sequencing, the proportion of XBB.1.5 is 57.3%, with other XBB subvariants at 26.2%.

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