Coronavirus tally: Global case tally falls 11% in latest week as fatalities decline by 18%

The global tally of COVID cases fell 11% in the week through Sept. 25 from the week earlier, while the number of fatalities fell 18% to just over 8,900, the World Health Organization said in its latest weekly update. The BA.5 omicron subvariant continued its dominance, accounting for 81.2% of cases sequenced and entered into a global database, the agency said. "There continues to be increased diversity within Omicron and within its descendent lineages. A number of these Omicron descendent...