WHO: Global Coronavirus Cases Rise for Second Week in a Row; Which regions register outbreaks?

The global cases of coronavirus COVID-19 increased by three percent last week, exceeding three million, which represents the second period of seven consecutive days in which an ascending line is observed, according to the statistics provided today by the World Health Organization (WHO).

On Europe, the region currently most affected (1.7 million cases last week), positives rose 6%, while in America they rose 3% (734,000) after several months of declines, and in Asia Pacific the rise was 2% (178,000).

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In the rest of the regions, however, the weekly decreases were maintained, both in the Middle East (-12%) and in South Asia and in Africa (-9% in both areas).

In the accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, the infections confirmed by the WHO They total 246 million, of which 93 million were in the Americas, 76 million in Europe and 43 million in South Asia.

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The deaths from COVID-19 last week were more than 50,000, which represents an increase of 8%, also the second in a row after two months down.

Almost half of the deaths (24,000) were reported in Europe, where weekly deaths rose 12%, while 15,000 occurred in the American continent (4% less than in the previous seven days) and almost 5,000 in South Asia, with a notable increase of 50%.

This week the barrier of five million deaths was exceeded in the world since the beginning of the pandemic, of which 2.2 million died in America, 1.4 million in Europe and 692,000 in South Asia, the three regions most affected by the health crisis.

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The United States was again the country with the most infections registered during the past week (528,000, 7% more), followed by the United Kingdom (258,000, a decrease of 14%), Russia (272,000), Turkey (182,000) and Ukraine (152,000 ).

The delta variant, which was first detected in India earlier this year, is already present in 99.5% of cases worldwide, according to studies by the GISAID analysis network.

Regarding the global vaccination campaign against COVID-19, to date 7.13 billion doses have been administered, at a current rate of 27 million daily.

49.7% of the world population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, although in low-income countries that percentage drops to 3.9%, still far from the WHO target of reaching 40% coverage in every nation on the planet.

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