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The WHO weekly report on the situation of covid-19 reveals a stabilization of new cases of the disease in the world, but an important jump in Brazil of 35% compared to the previous week.
The rate places Brazil as the location with the highest percentage increase among the five current countries most affected by covid-19 in the world this week. In the US, the total number of new cases reached 1.2 million, an increase of 9% compared to the previous week. Brazil ranked second in new cases, with 295 thousand. But it recorded the highest rate of expansion in just one week among sites that serve as the epicenter of the pandemic.
In India, there were 251,000 new cases, a decrease of 15%. Russians are in fourth place, with an increase of 6% and a total of 191,000 cases. Italy added 145,000 new cases, 12% less. Together, these five countries accounted for more than half of all new cases in the world in the past seven days.
In accumulated terms, Brazil ranks third, with 6.6 million cases, a figure that is only surpassed by 9 million in India and 14 million in the United States.
The data show that Brazilian expansion is also more intense than the average for the Americas. In the region, the weekly number of new cases reached 1.8 million this week with 26,624 new deaths. This represents a jump of 12% and 18% compared to the previous week, respectively.
The United States of America accounted for 68% of all new cases registered in the region during the past week. Brazil ranks second, with 295,600 new cases. This represents 1,391 new cases per 1 million people. The regional list is followed by Mexico, with 66 thousand new cases. The country bordering the US, however, also saw a stabilization of deaths compared to the previous week and an increase of only 2% in new cases.
What draws the attention of the WHO, however, is the 35% increase in cases last week in Brazil. According to the organization, this was the “highest amount reported since mid-August.”
“Upward trends are being observed in the five regions, and even today, the Southeast Region, which includes the state of São Paulo, has reported the highest number of accumulated cases and deaths, followed by the Northeast Region. Paraná, in the south of Brazil, which borders Paraguay and Argentina, introduced an evening curfew, “he said.
In Brazil, the WHO also indicates that the number of new deaths was 3,990 in the week, an increase of 19% compared to the previous week.
A week ago, the Director General of the WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, had already sounded the warning in relation to Brazil, asking the authorities to take the new upward trend seriously. For him, what was happening in the country was “very worrying.”
Now, the published figures confirm this concern and the Brazilian data contrast with the world average. According to the WHO, last week it repeated the amount of new pollutants from the previous period in the world average, which represents a stability in the spread of the disease.
“The global incidence of new cases remained very similar to that of the previous week with just under 4 million new cases registered in the last seven days, while new deaths, globally, increased slightly to more than 73,000” explained the WHO.
“New cases and deaths in the Americas region account for almost half of all new cases and more than a third of all new deaths this week. While new cases remain high in the European region, deaths new have decreased for a second week “, completed.
In Europe, there was a 9% drop in the number of cases and a 3% reduction in deaths.
“Globally, last week, covid-19 cases stood at approximately 4 million new cases, while new deaths continued to rise to more than 73,000,” the WHO said. “This brings the cumulative figures to more than 65.8 million reported cases and 1.5 million deaths worldwide since the start of the pandemic,” the agency adds.
