coronavirus a pandemic, there are some encouraging signs as new global infections fall sharply.Fresh Covid-19 cases for the week ended Feb.
14 were the lowest since October, at 2.7 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That resulted in a 2.5% increase in total infections from the previous week, the weakest gain since the start of the pandemic and less than half the rate seen a month earlier.Also Read | Why bitcoin won’t become like moneyThe death toll is also beginning to ease, yet at a less dramatic pace.
Daily fatalities have averaged less than 10,000 over the past five days, down from a peak of more than 18,000 in mid-January.It’s too early to count vaccines as a major reason for the improvement in the data, and some.