WHO: COVID cases drop everywhere, but pandemic not over

A woman wearing a face mask sends a child to a primary school in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. China has stuck to its hard-line "zero-COVID" policy of compulsory testing, lockdowns, quarantines and masking despite advice from the World Health Organization and moves by most other countries to open up again since the virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)