The incidence of COVID-19 has halved since the beginning of the year. This was stated by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus during a briefing, it was broadcast in Twitter .
According to him, the number of new cases of coronavirus infections has almost halved since the beginning of January, when more than five million infections were registered worldwide per week. By February 8, this figure had reached 2.6 million new cases. “This shows that simple healthcare measures are working even though new varieties [coronavirus] are present,” said the head of the organization.
Ghebreyesus added that the current trend in the situation with the coronavirus gives more hope that the pandemic can be brought under control. How the global community responds to the decline in disease will also be important. The head of the WHO concluded that the problem has not yet been finally resolved, although its scale has diminished, and if the struggle on any of the fronts is stopped, it will return with a deafening thunder.