NEW DELHI: Covid-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week globally, the World Health Organization said.
The world health body urged at-risk populations to keep up with their vaccinations against the disease.
“Even as we continue to study the spread of H5N1, we also continue to study COVID-19, which still kills an average of 1700 people globally every week,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
“However, data show that vaccine coverage has declined among health workers and people over 60, two of the most at-risk groups.”
“WHO recommends that people in the highest-risk groups receive a COVID-19 vaccine within 12 months of their last dose,” he said at a press conference.
