Geneva: Globally, during the week of January 31 to February 6, 2022, the number of new COVID-19 cases decreased by 17% as compared to the number reported during the previous week, while the number of new deaths increased by 7%, showed the latest updates from World Health Organization today.
Across the six WHO regions, over 19 million new cases and just under 68 000 new deaths were reported. As of 6 February 2022, over 392 million confirmed cases and over 5.7 million deaths have been reported globally.
At the country level, the highest numbers of new cases were reported from the United States of America (1 874 006 new cases; a 50% decrease), France (1 738 189 new cases; a 26% decrease), Germany (1 285 375 new cases; a 22% increase), Brazil (1 241 025 new cases; similar to the previous week’s figures) and India (1 095 616 new cases; a 41% decrease).
The highest number of new deaths were reported from the United States of America (14 090 new deaths; a 15% decrease), India (7888 new deaths; a 69% increase), the Russian Federation (4686 new deaths; similar to the previous week’s figures), Brazil (4610 new deaths; an 39% increase) and Mexico (2910 new deaths; a 48% increase).
The current global epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 is characterized by the continued rapid global spread of the Omicron variant. All other variants, including VOCs (Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta) and VOIs (Lambda and Mu) continue to decline in all six WHO regions.
The prevalence of the Omicron variant has increased globally and is now detected in almost all countries. However, many of the countries which reported an early rise in the number of cases due to the Omicron variant have now reported a decline in the total number of new cases since the beginning of January 2022.
– global bihari bureau
