Geneva: The global number of new cases remained similar to those reported during the previous week during the week 13-19 December, 2021. However, the weekly incidence of deaths decreased by 9%. Nonetheless, this corresponded to over 4.1 million new cases and just under 45 000 new deaths. As of December 19, over 273 million cases and over 5.3 million deaths were reported globally.
The African Region continued to report the largest increase in new cases in the last week (53%). It was also the only region to report an increase in the number of new weekly deaths (15%). The Region of the Americas reported the largest decrease (15%), followed by the Eastern Mediterranean Region (12%), the European Region (7%) and the Western Pacific and South-East Asia Regions (both 6%).
The European Region continued to report the highest incidence of weekly cases (279.9 new cases per 100 000 population), followed by the Region of the Americas (88.5 new cases per 100 000 population). Both regions also reported the highest weekly incidence in deaths of 2.9 and 1.0 per 100 000 population, respectively, while all other regions reported <1 new death per 100 000.
The highest numbers of new cases were reported from the United States of America (725 750 new cases; 12% decrease), the United Kingdom (507 984 new cases; 45% increase), France (358 175 new cases; 7% increase) and Germany (283 673 new cases; 19% decrease).
The highest numbers of new deaths were reported from the Russian Federation (7720 new deaths; 5.3 new deaths per 100 000; a 6% decrease), followed by the United States of America (6723 new deaths; 2.0 new deaths per 100 000; a 20% decrease), Poland (3006 new deaths; 7.9 new deaths per 100 000; a 7% increase), and Germany (2595 new deaths; 3.1 new deaths per 100 000; similar to the previous week), and India (1988 new deaths; <1 new death per 100 000; a 6% decrease).
– global bihari bureau
