India showed India 12% increase in number of new weekly cases with 351 218 new cases
Geneva: The global number of new cases over the past week (June 21-27, 2021) was over 2.6 million, a similar number compared to the previous week but the number of new deaths continued to decrease, with over 2.6 million new cases and 57 000 new deaths reported globally, the World Health Organization figures showed.
This is the lowest weekly mortality figure since those recorded in early November 2020. Globally, COVID-19 incidence remains very high, with an average of over 370 000 cases reported each day over the past week.
The cumulative number of cases reported globally now exceeds now 180 million and the number of global deaths is almost 4 million. Mortality in the African Region continued to increase sharply last week with the countries reporting the highest numbers of new deaths per 100 000 population over the past week being Namibia (11 new deaths per 100 000), Botswana (7 deaths per 100 000) and Zambia (20 new deaths per 100 000). India continued to record the highest number of deaths in the South East Asian region – 9038 new deaths; 0.7 new deaths per 100 000; a 45% decrease, during the week.
The highest numbers of new cases were reported from Brazil (521 298 new cases; 3% increase), India (351 218 new cases; 12% increase), Colombia (204 132 new cases; 5% increase), the Russian Federation (134 465 new cases; 24% increase), and Argentina (131 824 new cases; 11% decrease). Over the past week, the highest numbers of new cases per 100 000 population were reported from Seychelles (708 new cases per 100 000 population), Namibia (509 new cases per 100 000 population) and Mongolia (491 new cases per 100 000 population).
– global bihari bureau
