- Title: TIMELINE: Over 1 million Covid deaths in 2022 – WHO
- Date: 26th August 2022
- Summary: In Shanghai, face masks sell out as travellers fret over the spread of the virus. SHANGHAI, CHINA (FILE - JANUARY 21, 2020) (REUTERS) WOMAN PUTTING MASK ON HER BABY VARIOUS OF TRAVELLERS WALKING, MANY WEARING FACE MASKS
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- Story Text: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday (August 26) that it had recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of 2022, a “concerning†number as we enter the third year of the pandemic.
Since the pandemic began in March 2020, the virus claimed more than 6 million lives.
WHO warned that the virus is still circulating “intenselyâ€, especially in the western Pacific region, the eastern Mediterranean region, and the African region.
A further 5.3 million cases have been reported in the last week, and the WHO says this is an "underestimate".
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
Two years since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020, some countries and regions in Asia continue to battle COVID-19 outbreaks fuelled by the Omicron variant.
Mainland China logged its highest number of daily new local symptomatic COVID-19 infections in about two years on March 7, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant pressures its stringent policy to curb each outbreak quickly.
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