By: Shoba Shukla and Bobby Ramakant
On January 30, three years after the World Health Organization first declared the Covid-19 pandemic a public health emergency of international concern, the agency reaffirmed that it continues to be an issue of international concern despite steadily falling numbers of those ill. As of February 26, more than 758 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and more than 6.8 million deaths have been reported globally. Nearly 70 percent of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Some 13.32 billion doses have been administered globally, with 816,957 now administered each day. Nearly 28 percent of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose, with few adverse effects despite fringe attempts to characterize the vaccines as causing blood clots or autism or other problems. Millions of lives are considered to have been saved. As vaccines have been distributed to the far corners of the earth in a massive public health effort, the ravages of the disease, while still potent, appear to have been blunted… The text above is just an excerpt from this subscriber-only story.To read the whole thing and get full access to Asia Sentinel's reporting and archives, subscribe now for US$10/month or US$100/year.This article is among the stories we choose to make widely available.If you wish to get the full Asia Sentinel experience and access more exclusive content, please do subscribe to us for US$10/month or US$100/year.
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