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The head of the World Health Organization has called on countries to invest in their public health systems, as he stressed that the world should be better prepared for the coming epidemic.
“This will not be the last epidemic, but when the next epidemic comes, the world should be ready, ready more than this time,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhnam Braebrasius told a news conference on Monday.
He said many countries have neglected their basic public health systems in recent years and called on governments to “invest in public health as an investment in a healthier and safer future.”
“Public health is the foundation of social, economic and political stability. It means investing in population-based services to prevent, detect and respond to diseases.” “I urge all countries to invest in public health and especially primary health care.”
Releasing its latest weekly figures on Monday, the WHO said that, collectively, about 27 million Kovid-19 cases and 900,000 deaths have been reported to the organization to date. Statistics from Johns Hopkins University put the number of coronavirus cases at 27.3 million and the number of deaths at 892,714.
During the week ended September 6, more than 1.8 million new cases and 37,000 new deaths were reported, the WHO said on Monday, adding that the number of cases increased by%% and the number of deaths decreased by 3% compared to the previous week. Is.
The WHO said the Southeast Asian region had seen the highest increase in new coronavirus cases in the past week, with more than 600,000 new cases reported compared to the previous week.
Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean also saw an increase in the number of new cases reported, but a decrease in both new cases and deaths in the African and West Pacific region compared to the previous week.
The WHO said the number of reported cases in the U.S. had risen by 1%, and deaths by 4%, but added that the region had “the highest incidence of the disease globally, accounting for about half of all new cases reported in the last seven years.” Day. “
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