COVID-19 cases rose 89% in the Eastern Mediterranean region in the first week of January compared with the previous week but deaths fell by 13%, a World Health Organization official said on Thursday. Out of 22 mostly Middle Eastern countries in the region, 15 have reported cases of the Omicron ...
More than half of people in Europe are on track to contract the Omicron coronavirus variant in the next two months if infections continue at current rates, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. “At this rate, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) forecasts that more than 50 percent ...
