Putin ‘too busy’

LONDON - COVID-19 deaths have plunged about 90 per cent globally since February - in a sign the world is finally winning the pandemic fight.

There were 9 400 fatalities from the virus last week compared to more than 75 000 every seven days in early February. This is also the lowest level since COVID-19 started to take off in March 2020. World Health Organisation chiefs, who compiled the data, said the figures were a ‘cause for optimism’ and showed the world had ‘come a long way’.

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But they insisted that the current death tally was ‘10 000 too many’, and maintained that COVID-19 was ‘still a pandemic’.

America is recording the most weekly COVID-19 deaths out of any nation at 2 000 every seven days on average, and the third highest number of cases per week.

But cases and death counts are massively skewed by the number of tests carried out.

Despite America’s relatively high death count, virtually all COVID-19 restrictions have been abandoned in the US, with President Joe Biden declaring in September that the pandemic was ‘over’. Many left-leaning scientists, including Dr Anthony Fauci, were quick to undermine the president, claiming that there was still work to be done.

MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin is not going to the G20 summit next week because he is ‘too busy’, the Kremlin said.

Dmitry Peskov, the president’s Spokesman, said Putin’s schedule meant he could not leave Russia for the meeting which will take place on November 15 and 16. “This was the head of State’s decision, given his schedule and the necessity of him staying in the Russian Federation,” Peskov said.