This text is taken from our newsletter “Coronavirus Mail” of May 30, 2022. Click here to subscribe.
Quebec recorded no deaths yesterday linked to the coronavirus, a first since last December. This decline is part of an observable trend all over the planet.
Mortality has been steadily declining since the peak of the wave of contamination with the Omicron variant, at the start of the year.
Less than 1,000 deaths were recorded in one day last week by the main global pandemic monitoring bodies. This is a first since the beginning of the circulation of the coronavirus on the planet, at the beginning of 2020.
More good news: more than 60% of the world’s population is now vaccinated against COVID-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic had caused the death of 13 to 17 million people by the end of 2021, according to an estimate by the World Health Organization.
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