GENEVA, Switzerland
The global number of new COVID-19 cases
has been increasing for the last two months, as cases of the Delta variant have
been reported in 148 countries, territories or areas, the World Health
Organization (WHO) said in a weekly overview report issued Wednesday.A health work educates a man on the process of vaccination at the Ridge Hospital in Accra, Ghana, on March 2, 2021.
With over 4.4 million new cases reported
in the past week, the trend is largely attributed to increases in the Western
Pacific Region and the Region of the Americas, which reported a rise of 14
percent and 8 percent respectively as compared to the previous week.
The cumulative
number of COVID-19 cases reported globally is now over 206 million and the
cumulative deaths are almost 4.4 million.
According to the WHO
report, the regions with the highest weekly incidence rates of cases per
100,000 population remain the same as last week, namely the Region of the
Americas and the European Region, with 147.4 and 121.6 new cases per 100,000
population, respectively.
At the country
level, the WHO said, the highest numbers of new cases in the past week were
reported by the United States, with 883,996 new cases or a 9 percent increase,
followed by Iran (269,975 new cases, 9 percent increase), and India (258,121
new cases, 7 percent decrease).
Meanwhile, the
highest numbers of new deaths in the past week were reported by Indonesia,
Brazil and Russia, the WHO noted.
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