The coronavirus pandemic has again seen the largest increase in new infections in Europe in seven days, up 10% from a week earlier, according to AFP estimates.
The number of new infections confirmed during the day has quadrupled in the past three months, reaching 63,600 this week. In comparison, it was 15,000 at the beginning of July.
Infections have also risen in the Middle East, where they have risen by 5%, compared with a week earlier, in Oceania (5%), the United States and Canada (1%).
Infections have fallen in Africa (-7%), Asia (-5%), Latin America and the Caribbean (-3).
Globally, the pandemic has stabilized this week with 295,000 new infections a day.
Among the countries where more than 1,000 new infections are registered every day, the leader is Poland, where the number of infections has increased by 71% and reached 1,500 cases per day.
This is followed by the Netherlands with an increase of 43% or 2,800 cases, Canada (40%, 1,600 cases), Lebanon (34%, 1,200), Russia (29%, 8,100) and the United Kingdom (26%, 6,300).
After several weeks of deterioration, it has stabilized in the Czech Republic (-2%, 2200) and France (-2%, 11 500).
The sharpest declines were in Peru (-24%, 4,200 new cases per day), South Africa (-21%, 1,300), Ecuador (-16%, 1,100), the Philippines (-15%, 2,500) and Costa Rica (-15 %, 1100).
India, the United States and Brazil recorded the highest number of new infections this week. These are 82,900, 43,300 and 27,100 cases respectively.
The situation in the USA is stable, but it is improving in India (-6%) and Brazil (-6%).
In proportion to the population, Israel had the highest number of new infections last week. These are 445 cases per 100,000. This is followed by Bahrain with 226 and Argentina with 192.
The highest number of Covid-19-related deaths was reported in India, with 1,076 deaths per day. This is followed by the United States (726), Brazil (696), Mexico (377), Iran (195) and Colombia (182).
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic at the end of 2019, the total number of Covid-19-related deaths in China worldwide has reached 1,024,093, with a total of 34.3 million infections confirmed.
In absolute terms, the highest rates of Covid-19-related deaths are in the United States, Brazil and India, but in proportion to the population in Peru, Belgium and Bolivia.
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