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Latest COVID-19 data confirms infections have risen globally for four consecutive weeks
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 05 - 08 - 2021

COVID-19 infections have continued to rise globally for more than a month now, with over four million cases reported in the past week alone, the UN health agency said on Wednesday.
In its latest update, the World Health Organization (WHO) attributed the uptick to "substantial" caseload increases of 33 percent in the Western Pacific and 37 percent in the Eastern Mediterranean – where coronavirus fatalities also rose 48 and 31 percent, respectively.
The number 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 percent.
Africa and Europe witnessed a two percent decrease in COVID-19 deaths, while South-East Asia registered a three percent increase, according to WHO's COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update.
Overall, the total number of reported cases is around 197 million and with 4.2 million deaths worldwide.
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Ranked by country, the United States topped the number of new infections over the past week, with 543,420 new cases, a nine percent jump, followed by India, which had 283,923 new cases and a seven percent increase.
Indonesia had 273,891 new cases, followed by Brazil's 247,830 and Iran's 206,722 new infections.
While Alpha variant infections have been reported in 182 countries, the Delta variant has been confirmed in three new countries, infecting a total of 135 nations.
Spotlighting Africa
By region, WHO said that Africa — now in the grip of its third coronavirus wave — had reported similar numbers of weekly cases and deaths as the previous seven-day period, with just over 182,000 new cases and more than 4,800 new deaths.
Nonetheless, the UN agency explained that the overall regional decrease in confirmed weekly infections and deaths on the continent since the middle of July is still being driven by falling numbers in South Africa, which dwarfed the 13,268 new cases in Mozambique over the past seven-day period.
Americas
In the Americas, where there have been more than 1.2 million new infections and over 20,000 COVID-19 deaths in the past week and WHO noted an increase in Mexico, which had 80.1 new cases per 100,000.
Brazil experienced 7,120 fatalities, making it the highest number of deaths in the region, followed by Mexico with 2,502 deaths and 2,455 in the United States.
In the Eastern Mediterranean, an increase in cases and deaths were mainly driven by Iran, where new 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 month of increases in COVID-19 infections and deaths, Europe saw a drop in weekly cases — driven by decreases in Spain and the UK.
However, at just over 8,000, the death toll in Europe was similar to the previous week, driven by 5,478 new 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 number of weekly deaths remained stable, at 22,000 in South-East Asia, new infections topped 841,000.
In addition to an increase in India, Indonesia saw 273,891 new cases while Thailand registered more than 118,000 new infections. These three countries accounted for 80 percent of new cases reported in the region.
The highest numbers of new 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 increase in deaths largely to Malaysia (1,122 new deaths) and Viet Nam (936).
As cases increased in 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). — UN News


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