Last week, a record number of 2 million new corona infections was registered worldwide. The World Health Organization reports this. The number of deaths fell by 10 percent. The largest increase in the number of infections was in Europe.
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Between September 14 and 20, there were almost 2 million new infections, an increase of 6 percent compared to a week earlier. “That is the largest increase in the number of cases in one week since the start of the epidemic,” the WHO said in its weekly review. During the same period, 37,700 deaths were recorded, a decrease of 10 percent from the week before. The WHO does point out that the number of registered cases is only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
The largest increase in the number of cases was in it Europe (+27 percent). It American continent, which accounts for 38 percent of the total number of infections, remains the hardest hit, although the number of deaths fell by 22 percent last week.
In South East Asiaaccounting for 35 percent of the total number of COVID-19 cases, the number of deaths has passed the 100,000 mark. Last week, 9,000 people in the region died from the virus in the region. And also in it Mediterranean area, in the rest of Asia and in Oceania A slight increase in the number of infections and deaths has been reported in the past three weeks.
In Africa The spread of the virus continues to slow, with the number of infections falling by 12 percent and the number of deaths by 16 percent.
Since the virus emerged in China in late December, more than 30.6 million infections and 950,000 deaths have been reported.
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