Cina reports first COVID-19 death in six months; fatalities, cases drop worldwide in week

Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Mainland China on Sunday reported its first death from COVID-19 in six months as the outbreak worldwide is easing to levels at the start of the pandemic in the Asian nation despite new Omicron subvariants.

Globally in the past week, infections decreased 1% to 2,445,564 with the seven-day world moving average 349,366 among the the lowest since late September 2020, according to Worldometers.info.

The cumulative was 643,006,073 so far Sunday. Cases on Sunday were 276,448. The last time cases were above 1 million was July 31.

Deaths decreased 12% to 8,145 with the cumulative 6,625,837 so far Sunday.

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