According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the COVID-19 epidemic is close to coming to an end.
The pandemic is progressively dying down, according to Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO, as a result of a decline in the number of fatalities worldwide.
However, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus stressed that more needs to be done to completely eradicate COVID-19 while speaking at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
“We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. We are not there yet. But the end is in sight”, he mentioned.
He urged countries to keep up their efforts against the virus that has killed over six million people.
“Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 was the lowest since March 2020″, said Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus.
Globally, 10,935 Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the week of September 5 to 11, according to WHO’s latest report.
That is a drop of more than 20% from the previous week.
The WHO reported 407 more fatalities in Australia during that time.
Since the start of the pandemic, more than 6.4 million Covid-19 deaths had been documented worldwide as of September 11.
In Australia, 14,421 Covid-19 deaths have been reported, according to the most recent federal government report dated September 9.