Geneva - Sana
The President of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a decrease in the rates of infection with the emerging corona virus in the world for the fifth week in a row.
Sputnik news agency quoted Ghebreyesus as saying in a briefing today that the number of coronavirus cases reported worldwide is declining for the fifth consecutive week, as the number of infections was recorded last week, the lowest number of infections in a week since October of last year.
According to Gebresus, the number of new infections recorded every week has almost halved within five weeks.
The total number of Coronavirus infections around the world exceeded 100 million, while deaths exceeded 1.95 million cases.
And the World Health Organization announced earlier today its approval of the emergency use of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Corona virus, which would allow it to begin distribution to some of the poorest countries in the world, noting that it had included two copies of the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine against Covid 19 in emergency situations, and this approval gives the green light for these two vaccines to be announced From them internationally through the Kovacs mechanism concerned with the fair distribution of vaccines.
Kovacs is a global initiative that was established after the start of the Corona pandemic, with the aim of distributing about two billion doses of anti-virus vaccines to poor countries.