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The pace of the pandemic slackened in every region of the world for the second week in a row, with an average of 11% fewer new cases per day, or 564,300, compared to the previous week, according to an AFP tally up to Thursday.
There were 18% fewer cases in Africa, 16% fewer in the United States and Canada, 10% fewer in Europe, eight percent fewer in Latin America and the Caribbean, a decline of seven percent in the Middle East and a drop of five percent in Asia.
This week, Europe and the US/Canada were home to nearly two-thirds, or 65 percent, of the new cases.
Nearly 1 million Russian citizens have received Covid-19 vaccine doses as part of a programme aimed at reaching 20m vaccinations by April, Reuters reports.
The country’s mass inoculation drive with the domestically produced Sputnik V vaccine began in December for certain groups and was then opened up to the general population in early January.
Read the original article at The Guardian