UAE: Daily Covid-19 cases dip below 500 for the first time in 3 months

UAE: Daily Covid-19 cases dip below 500 for the first time in 3 months

The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Wednesday reported 499 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, along with 618 recoveries and no deaths.

Life expectancy in the United States — in 2021 — fell for the second year in a row to its lowest level since 1996, driven by Covid-19 deaths, according to provisional government data published on Wednesday.

The nearly one-year decline from 2020 to 76.1 years marked the largest two-year drop in life expectancy at birth — in close to a century — according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Disparity in life expectancy between men and women also widened last year to the highest in over two decades, with men now expected to live 73.2 years, nearly six years lesser than women.

Deaths from Covid-19 contributed to half of the overall decline in life expectancy last year, with drug overdoses and heart disease also major contributors, the data showed.

Covid-19 was associated with more than 460,000 US deaths in 2021, according to CDC statistics.

In 2020, US life expectancy saw its biggest one-year drop since World War Two, with Covid-related deaths contributing nearly 75 per cent to the decline.

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