The global coronavirus pandemic is slowing overall for the fifth week in a row, according to AFP news agency estimates.
The number of new infections registered worldwide per day has fallen by 11% to 457,000 in a week, according to data compiled by AFP on Thursday.
The number of new cases of Covid-19 began to rise in mid-June as a result of the spread of the most contagious delta strain of the virus, which has become the predominant strain in many countries.
But for more than a month, the number of new infections has been declining.
However, the number of confirmed cases is only a fraction of the actual number of infections, given that the types and extent of testing vary from country to country.
The situation has improved in most regions during the week.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the decline is 31%, in the Middle East 21%, and in Asia 15%. In the United States and Canada, it is a tenth less.
The situation is stable in Africa, where the number of infections has fallen by 1%, and in Europe, where it has risen by 3%.
There has been an 11% increase in Oceania, but the number of infections has remained low.
The largest increase in the number of new cases was in Lithuania, where the increase was 62%. Romania is in second place with 60% and a record number of people are hospitalized there.
This is followed by South Korea with 46% growth, Ukraine with 36% and Singapore with 25%.
At the other end of the spectrum is Japan, with the sharpest decline of 42%. It is followed by Morocco with 37%, Sri Lanka with 36%, Indonesia with 33% and Israel with 31%.
The United States has the highest number of new cases at 113,000 per day, a decrease of 11%. This is followed by the United Kingdom with 34,500 per day, an increase of 6%, and Turkey, where the number of new cases has fallen by 11%.
In proportion to the population, the highest number of new cases this week was in Serbia, with 681 cases per 100,000 population, ahead of Mongolia and Lithuania, where they are 511 and 450 cases respectively.
The United States also has the highest number of deaths per day in 1924. The United States is followed by Russia with 830 and Brazil with 541.
In the world as a whole, the number of registered deaths per day has decreased by 7% to 7779.
In terms of vaccination rates, for the third week in a row, Cuba is the world’s third largest vaccine with more than one million inhabitants, with 2.16% vaccinated every day.
The next places are South Korea and Taiwan with 1.49% and 1.21% respectively.
On average, more than 26 million doses of the vaccine are injected every day in the world every week.
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