Over 90 Million COVID Cases Logged in 10 Weeks, Deaths Rising in 4 Regions: WHO

About 90 million COVID-19 cases were logged in since the Omicron variant was initially identified 10 weeks ago—with deaths increasing in four regions, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyeus said.

The number of cases reported since the emergence of Omicron is higher than the total number recorded in all of 2020, Tedros said in a COVID briefing Tuesday. He also mentioned a "very worrying increase" of deaths in most areas of the world, with WHO reporting four of its six regions seeing growing trends in deaths over the past four weeks.