During the WHO press conference on global health issues on November 9, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that since February, Covid deaths have dropped by 90 per cent.

Looking at the data, the world is generally showing lowering trends for both deaths and cases. According to Worldometers, as of November 19, the number of weekly global deaths had dropped by 8 per cent compared to the previous week.

In a September CDC report on the mortality risks among patients hospitalised primarily for Covid in America, comparing the Delta and Omicron strains, it was found that mortality rate for these seriously ill patients had dropped by...