Manila, June 2 -- Over 3.5 million novel coronavirus cases and over 78,000 deaths were registered worldwide in the past week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its weekly bulletin released in Geneva early on Wednesday.

"The number of new Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) cases and deaths continues to decrease, with over 3.5 million new cases and 78,000 new deaths reported globally in the past week; a 15 percent and 7 percent decrease, respectively, compared to the previous week," the global organization said in its Covid-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update.

On May 24-30, the global organization was informed about 3,550,456 new cases all over the world, and 78,667 Covid-related deaths. As of May 30, a total of 169,604,858 cases of...