COVID-19 cases rose in only two regions of the world: the Americas and the Western Pacific.
A worker wearing a protective suit to help protect against COVID-19 stands outside an ambulance parked along a street in Beijing, Thursday, May 26, 2022. – The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in January, the World Health Organization said.
WHO said it is tracking all omicron subvariants as “variants of concern.” It noted that countries which had a significant wave of disease caused by the omicron subvariant BA.2 appeared to be less affected by other subvariants like BA.4 and BA.5, which were responsible for the latest surge of disease in South Africa.
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