Latest COVID-19 data confirms infections have risen globally for four consecutive weeks

In its latest update, the World Health Organization (WHO) attributed the uptick to “substantial” caseload increases of 33 per cent in the Western Pacific and 37 per cent successful the Eastern Mediterranean – where coronavirus fatalities also rose 48 and 31 per cent, respectively. 

The fig of deaths in the four remaining WHO regions of Africa, Americas, Europe and South-East Asia was in keeping with previous weeks, apart from the Americas, which dropped 29 per cent. 

Africa and Europe witnessed a 2 per cent decrease in COVID-19 deaths, while South-East Asia registered a 3 per cent increase, according to WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update. 

Overall, the full fig of reported cases is around 197 cardinal and with 4.2 million deaths worldwide.  

Country file 

Ranked by country, the United States topped the fig of caller infections implicit the past week, with 543,420 caller cases, a 9 per cent jump, followed by India, which had 283,923 caller cases and a seven per cent increase. 

Indonesia had 273,891 new cases, followed by Brazil’s 247,830 and Iran’s 206,722 new infections. 

While Alpha variant infections person been reported successful 182 countries, the Delta variant has been confirmed in three caller countries, infecting a full of 135 nations. 

Spotlighting Africa

By region, WHO said that Africa – present successful the grip of its 3rd coronavirus question - had reported akin numbers of play cases and deaths arsenic the previous seven-day period, with conscionable implicit 182,000 caller cases and more than 4,800 caller deaths. 

Nonetheless, the UN bureau explained that the overall regional decrease in confirmed weekly infections and deaths on the continent since the mediate of July is inactive being driven by falling numbers in South Africa, which dwarfed the 13,268 caller cases in Mozambique over the past seven-day period. 

Americas 

In the Americas, wherever determination person been much than 1.2 cardinal new infections and implicit 20,000 COVID-19 deaths successful the past week and WHO noted an increase in Mexico, which had 80.1 caller cases per 100,000. 

Brazil experienced 7,120 fatalities, making it the highest numbers of deaths successful the region, followed by Mexico with 2,502 deaths and 2,455 in the United States. 

In the Eastern Mediterranean, as increase successful cases and deaths were mainly driven by Iran, wherever caller infections were rose to more than 206,000; Iraq with 83,098 cases; and Morocco, which witnessed 48,366 new cases. 

European trends 

After more than a period of increases in COVID-19 infections and deaths, Europe saw a driblet in weekly cases – driven by decreases in Spain and the UK.  

However, at conscionable implicit 8,000, the death toll in Europe was similar to the erstwhile week, driven by 5,478 caller fatalities in Russia, 524 in the UK and 453 in Turkey’.  

With 187,268 confirmed cases, UK ranked highest in new infections followed by Russia, with 162,136, and Turkey, which registered 139,667new COVID-19 infections. 

South-East Asia 

While the fig of play deaths remained stable, astatine 22,000 in South-East Asia, new infections topped 841,000.  

In addition to an summation in India, Indonesia saw 273,891 caller cases while Thailand registered much than 118,000 new infections. These 3 countries accounted for 80 per cent of caller cases reported in the region.  

The highest numbers of caller deaths in South-East Asia were in Indonesia (12,444 fatalities) followed by India (3,800) and then Myanmar (2,620). 

Western Pacific 

In the Western Pacific, WHO reported that Japan and Malaysia drove a spike in infections while attributing an summation successful deaths largely to Malaysia (1,122 caller deaths) and Viet Nam (936). 

As cases accrued successful most of the Western Pacific last week, WHO traced the highest numbers to Malaysia (116,879 new infections), Japan (60,157) and Viet Nam (55,147).