Europe has seen a declining global pandemic in the last week, with a 7% increase in the number of COVID-19 cases compared to the previous week.
Meanwhile, the number of deaths has increased by 10% in the region, according to the epidemiological report published on Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO), reports EFE.
The increase in the number of infections in the rest of the world was only 1%, and the number of deaths fell to 4%, representing 3.1 million new cases and 48,000 additional deaths in the last seven days.
Africa was the other region where there was a slight increase in new infections (3%), but on this continent there was also a sharp decrease in the number of deaths (-27%).
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the total number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has reached almost 250 million, and the number of deaths has exceeded 5 million.
According to the WHO’s weekly report, the incidence in Europe has now reached 208.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, much higher than in the second region with a high rate of infections, the Americas, where 68 , 6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
The United States remains the country with the most daily infections over seven days (510,000), a trend that has lasted for most of the pandemic, except for the second quarter of 2021, when a violent wave of COVID -19 hit India, which became the most affected country in the world at that time.
Following the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Germany, in this order, have been ranked in the ranking of the countries with the most infections in the last seven days. In Germany, the progression was the most significant, with a 29% increase in the number of cases.
WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge warned on Wednesday that the continent could account for half a million COVID-19-related deaths by early February 2022, if the current growth trend continues.
According to Hans Kluge, 43 countries in the WHO European region, which includes 53 states in Europe and Central Asia, including Russia and several former Soviet republics, are “facing increased or extreme tension” over the capacity of hospitals in this area. period.
