GENEVA: The number of new cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide fell by 16 percent last week to 2.7 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

The number of new deaths reported also fell 10 percent week-on-week to 81,000, the WHO said late Tuesday in its weekly epidemiological update, using figures up to Sunday.

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