Mandates to Return? ‘We cannot live with 15,000 deaths a week’: WHO warns on rise in COVID fatalities

Reported COVID-19 deaths around the globe have increased by 35 per cent over the past four weeks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, warning that risk factors are set to increase as cold weather approaches.

In the last week alone, 15,000 people died from COVID-19 globally, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

In Canada, 263 people died from COVID-19 from the week of July 31 to Aug. 6, according to Health Canada.