MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th September, 2022) The end of the COVID-19 pandemic is "in sight" with the world now being in the best possible position to defeat it, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, urging countries to keep up the fight.
"We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. We are not there yet, but the end is in sight," Ghebreyesus said at a press conference.
WHO chief noted that the last week's death toll from COVID-19 was the lowest since March 2020.
Ghebreyesus urged all countries to invest in vaccinating 100% of the most at-risk groups, including health workers and the elderly, as the highest priority on the path toward 70% vaccination coverage.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. As of September 11, more than 605 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 6.4 million deaths, according to the WHO.
The WHO said in a weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 on Wednesday that the number of new cases decreased by 28%, and the number of deaths decreased by 22% in the past week. Over 3.1 million new cases and 11,000 deaths had been reported worldwide last week.
