COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline | | UN News

The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths has continued to decline globally, with 3.1 million new cases and just over 54,000 new deaths, reported over the last week, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The largest decrease in new weekly cases was reported in Africa (43 per cent), followed by the Eastern Mediterranean (21 per cent), Southeast Asia (19 per cent), the Americas (12 per cent) and the Western Pacific (12 per cent).

According to the update, the regions reporting the highest weekly case incidence rates per 100,000 population were Europe (123.1 new cases per 100,000) and the Americas (109.5 new cases per 100,000), while the same two regions reported this highest weekly incidence in deaths per 100,000 population; the Americas (2.4 new cases per 100,000) and Europe (1.6 new cases per 100,000).

The highest numbers of new cases were reported from the United States (760,571), the United Kingdom (239,781 new cases; similar to the number reported in the previous week), Turkey (197,277 new cases; similar to the number reported in the previous week), the Russian Federation (165,623 new cases; 13 per cent increase), and India (161,158 new cases; a 21 per cent decrease).