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Delta variant spreads to 132 countries, says WHO

The UN health agency stated on Wednesday that the worldwide number of new COVID-19 cases recorded last week (19-25 July) was over 3.8 million, up 8% from the previous week.

The latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) showed a “substantial” uptick in the Americas and the Western Pacific, which jumped 30 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively.

An average of around 540 000 cases was reported globally each day over the past week as compared to 490 000 cases reported daily the week before.

When compared to the previous week, the number of deaths reported this week climbed dramatically, with almost 69 000 deaths, a 21% rise. In total, almost 194 million cases and over 4 million fatalities have been documented across the world.

According to the WHO, the United States had the largest number of new cases throughout the seven-day period, with more than half a million new infections, indicating a 131 percent rise.

According to WHO’s data, this rise was followed by Brazil – 324,334 new cases; Indonesia – 289,029 new cases; the United Kingdom – 282,920 new cases; and India – 265,836 new cases.

“In the last week, global #COVID19 cases increased by ~6.5% and deaths increased by ~20.6% Last week >69,000 people died. This is an absolute travesty because we can prevent deaths,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 Technical Lead at WHO.

The global total of 195,266,156 confirmed COVID-19 includes 4.1 million deaths. As of Monday, almost 3.7 billion vaccine doses have been administered.

Of the four COVID-19 mutations that WHO has designated “variants of concern”, the UN agency said that the Alpha variant is present in 182 countries, Beta is in 131, Gamma in 81 and after reaching eight new countries in the past week, the Delta variant is now in 132 countries.

Medically Speaking Team

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