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		</div><p>The number of new coronavirus deaths reported worldwide fell by 17% in the last week but Covid-19 infections rose, reversing a decline in cases that first began in January, according to the World Health Organisation.</p>
<p>In the UN health agency’s weekly report on the pandemic issued late on Tuesday, the WHO said there were more than 11 million new Covid infections last week – about an 8% rise – and 43,000 new deaths.</p>
<p>The number of Covid deaths globally has been dropping for the past three weeks.</p>
<p>The biggest increases in cases were seen in the Western Pacific and Africa, where infections rose by 29% and 12% respectively.</p>
<p>Elsewhere, cases dropped by more than 20% in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the Americas. In Europe, cases inched up by about 2%.</p>
<p>The WHO said those numbers “should be interpreted with caution”.</p>
<p>It noted that many countries are changing their Covid-19 testing strategies as they come out of the acute phase of the pandemic, and are testing far less than previously, meaning that many new cases are going undetected.</p>
<figure id="attachment_172981" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-172981" style="width: 769px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DFE8FDD0-0DEF-4B45-BF45-25042109AC3D.jpeg" alt="" width="769" height="523" class="size-full wp-image-172981" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-172981" class="wp-caption-text">Residents queue at a Covid test centre in Beijing, near a banner reading ‘Wear your mask properly, keep a metre apart’</figcaption></figure>
<p>In recent weeks, countries including Sweden and the UK have announced plans to drop widespread testing, saying the massive investment is no longer worth the effort.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, infections, hospital admissions and deaths have increased slightly in Britain, driven by the more infectious Omicron variant.</p>
<p>Another contributing factor has been the suspension of nearly all Covid protocols as more people stop wearing face masks and gather in larger numbers.</p>
<p>The WHO noted that although Covid cases have been dropping in numerous regions, the Western Pacific has seen rising numbers since December.</p>
<p>On Monday, China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit north-eastern province and mobilised military reservists, as the fast-spreading “stealth Omicron” variant fuels the country’s biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic two years ago.</p>
<p>Officials also locked down the southern city of Shenzhen, which has 17.5 million people and is a major tech and finance hub that borders Hong Kong – which itself has reported some of the highest Covid death rates recently.</p>
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