Geneva: Continuing with the trend observed since August 2021, the numbers of weekly COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline and during the week of September 27 to October 3, too, even as the number of deaths remained similar to that of the past week, cases decreased by 9% as compared to the previous week.
Africa region showed the largest 43% decline in weekly cases during this period and only European region reported a number similar to that of the previous week, the latest World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiological report showed. Over 3.1 million new cases and just over 54 000 new deaths were reported during the week.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases reported globally is now over 234 million and the cumulative number of deaths is just under 4.8 million.
The number of new weekly deaths reported showed a large (>10%) decline for all regions except for the Regions of the Americas and Europe, which both reported a similar number of weekly deaths as compared to previous week. The largest decline in weekly deaths was reported from the African Region, with a 25% decline as compared to the previous week.
The highest numbers of new cases were reported from the United States of America (760 571 new cases; similar to the number reported in the previous week), 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% increase), and India (161 158 new cases; 21% decrease).
– global bihari bureau
