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[Southeast Asia] , the [Middle East] and [Europe] last week, while the number of deaths globally dropped by 16 per cent, according to the World Health Organisation’s latest weekly pandemic report issued on Wednesday. The WHO said there were 3.3 million new COVID-19 infections last week, marking a 4 per cent decrease, with more than 7,500 deaths. But cases jumped by about 45 per cent in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and by about 6 per cent in Europe. [Salim Abdool Karim] , an epidemiologist and vice-chancellor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, said the recent fall...
