Covid-19, WHO: global incidence drops but new variants grow

The incidence of Sars-CoV-2 globally is decreasing but the new variants, KP.2 and KP.3, grow to 22.7% and 22.4% of the sequences examined globally in week 21, i.e. from May 20th to May 26th, compared to 14.6% and 13% 3 weeks earlier (April 29th to May 5th). JN.1 is the most reported variant of interest (Voi) worldwide, it is present today in 132 countries and represents 47% of the sequences found. This is what emerges from the latest Covid bulletin from the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (Gisrs) taken during the week ending May 26 and recorded in the FluNet report from the World Health Organization (WHO), released in recent days. The Covid positivity rate was 6.3% in 80 countries, down from 7.1%.
Globally, “the number of new cases decreased by 11% in the last 28 monitored days, from April 29 to May 26, 2024, compared to the previous 28-day period (from April 1 to 28), with more than 129 thousand new reported infections reads the report In the period from April 29 to May 26, new hospitalizations and admissions to intensive care units for Covid-19 both recorded an overall decline of 57% and 38% respectively.