The Covid-19 pandemic does not end. It marked an acceleration this week in the world, driven by an outbreak in the United States and Canada. With 656,800 contaminations recorded daily in the world this week, the indicator has slightly increased (+ 2% compared to the previous week). The pandemic has been gaining ground again since mid-June, fueled by a very contagious Delta variant and which has become the majority in many countries. But it seems for two weeks on an ascending plateau.
The situation continues to deteriorate markedly in the United States / Canada zone (+ 12%) and in Oceania (+ 20%), while new contamination is only slightly increasing in Europe (+ 4%), stable in Africa, almost stable in Asia (-1%) and down in the Middle East (-7%). Ethiopia is the country where the epidemic is accelerating the most (+ 62%, 1,300 new cases per day), among those having recorded at least 1,000 daily infections during the past week. Next come Germany (+ 50%, 8,300), Serbia (+ 49%, 1,900), Sri Lanka (+ 41%, 5,500) and Bulgaria (+ 35%, 1,300).
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The United States remains by far the country with the highest number of new infections in absolute terms this week (155,300 daily cases, + 12%), ahead of Iran (35,100, -8%) and the United States. Uni (33,800, + 11%). As a proportion of the population, the country with the most new cases this week remains Kosovo (783 per 100,000 inhabitants), ahead of Georgia (774) and Montenegro (699).
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The United States has the highest number of daily deaths, 1,192 per day this week, ahead of Indonesia (1,078) and Russia (792) Globally, daily deaths have risen above the 10,000 mark this week. week (10,069 per day, + 3%).
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