Send to Kindle Globally, the burden of Covid-19 cases has decreased, but the uneven distribution of life-saving vaccines could prolong the economic recovery and leave developing countries even further behind, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, CNBC reported. In the week that ended 31January, 3.7 million new cases of coronavirus were reported worldwide, a 13% decrease compared to the previous week, according to the latest WHO Covid report. Covid-19 deaths, which lag behind the new cases for several weeks, showed a modest 1% decrease in the last week of January. That's welcome news, but more than 3 million new infections "are still an awful lot of people," said Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO emergency health program.