The number of newly reported Covid cases have dropped to their lowest level since March 2020, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic. “We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. We are not there yet, but the end is in sight,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
Cases of COVID-19 have reached their lowest levels since April, hospitalizations have dipped and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has downgraded the Richmond area to a low level of transmission for the first time in months.
But Dr. Elaine Perry, director of the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts, cautioned that COVID levels could increase again this fall. Cases and hospitalizations have climbed in the autumn each of the past two years as more people congregate indoors.
“We are very encouraged by seeing our COVID-19 community …
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