Geneva: Globally, the weekly incidence of both cases and deaths has declined during the past week (December 6-12, 2021), with decreases of 5% and 10% respectively, as compared to the previous week, the World Health Organization stated today.
Nonetheless, according to WHO, this still corresponded to over 4 million new confirmed cases and just under 47 000 new deaths and the African Region reported a 111% increase in new cases last week. As of December 12, nearly 269 million confirmed cases and nearly 5.3 million deaths have been reported globally.
The regions reporting the highest weekly case incidence per 100 000 population continued to be the European Region (277.9 new cases per 100 000 population) and the Region of the Americas (81.9 new cases per 100 000 population). Both regions also reported the highest weekly incidence in deaths of 3.0 and 1.0 per 100 000 population, respectively while <1 new death per 100 000 was reported in all other regions.
The highest numbers of new cases were reported from the United States of America (674 019 new cases; 9% decrease), Germany (351 738 new cases; 11% decrease), the United Kingdom (350 340 new cases; 13% increase), France (335 972 new cases; 19% increase), and the Russian Federation (215 283 new cases; 7% decrease).
The highest numbers of new deaths were reported from the Russian Federation (8205 new deaths; 5.6 new deaths per 100 000; a similar number to that of the previous week), the United States of America (6909 new deaths; 2.1 new deaths per 100 000; a 16% decrease), Poland (2804 new deaths; 7.4 new deaths per 100 000; a 6% increase), Ukraine (2747 new deaths; 6.3 new deaths per 100 000; a 13% decrease), and India (2108 new deaths; <1 new death per 100 000; a 56% decrease).
– global bihari bureau
