The U.N. health agency's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told officials gathered in Geneva for opening of the WHO's annual meeting that “declining testing and sequencing means we are blinding ourselves to the evolution of the virus.'
FILE - World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels, Feb. 18, 2022. As much of the worlds attention turns to bloodshed in Ukraine, Ghebreyesus said Wednesday, March 16 there is nowhere on earth where the health of millions of people is more under threat than Tigray referring to his home region in Ethiopia.
In a weekly report Thursday on the global situation, WHO said the number of new COVID-19 cases appears to have stabilized after weeks of decline since late March, while the overall number of weekly deaths dropped. Reported deaths are rising in Africa, the continent with the lowest vaccination coverage, he said, and only 57 countries — almost all of them wealthy — have vaccinated 70% of their people.
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